GOOD MOURNING

Just after midnight, shell-shocked and numb, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach got the news that his father had passed away. There was a funeral to arrange in Israel, international travel plans to make, and oh so many bureaucratic details to attend to ? all at the height of a global pandemic. And as soon as the funeral was over, his obligation to say Kaddish began. Three times a day, every day, for eleven months, he would need to assemble a quorum of ten to say the Jewish mourning prayer for his father. While much of the world was in lockdown. There was no time to grieve. With sensitivity, wisdom, humility, and even a liberal dose of his trademark humor, Rabbi Shmuley takesus through his year of mourning and shares the lessons learned. This moving book touches on universal themes about grief, love, and how to move on with life after the deepest loss.