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A Daughter's Kaddish: My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing
A woman breaks with Jewish tradition to honor her late father in this moving memoir of faith, grief, and transformation. A Daughters Kaddish recounts Sarah Birnbachs year-long odyssey to persevere through an unfamiliar world of Jewish prayer. To honor her beloved father, Sarah commits to reciting the Mourners Kaddish twice a day in synagogue for eleven monthsa Jewish mourning ritual that was historically reserved for sonsdespite her fathers initial request that she hire someone male to do so. A novice worshipper and single working mother, Sarah encountered many obstaclesincluding gender-based objections to her prayer practice, her own daughters near-fatal car accident, an incident that tore her synagogue apart, and her mothers dismissiveness. Read more