As
many of you know, my work revolves around people who've suffered Traumatic Loss and Grief -- the type of things
that usually sends people running for cover, something feared and never to be
addressed. As with many "forbidden" topics, it is always better to
discuss these things, rather than avoid them. How else do we learn from them?
Obviously, it takes a grown up adult person to confront these fears and
anxieties, but the result is being able to make empowered decisions about both
"living” and “dying." This ability contributes to our personal,
emotional and spiritual growth; an undeniable part of our human journey, which
helps remove part of the fear of the "Great
Unknown" -- Death. Read
Rabbi Leynor’s blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-living-and-dying-tov-matters.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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