This year has been an extremely difficult one for me. My 13 year-old son, the love of my life, returning from a summer visit with his father, announced to me that he wanted to go and live with him at the end of the school year. He said this with no anger, no malice, no hurtfulness. He reassured me that he loved me, that he knew I loved him , that no-one knew his heart better, and that the lessons I had taught him would carry him through this monumental transition. I was not as composed. Panic, fear, loss, grief, anger, sadness, resentment, desperation. It felt like I was drowning while everyone around me was watching, helplessly.
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Kiddushin and The Sacred
What makes a relationship “sacred?” In what ways can you enhance the holiness of your relationship?
Understanding the Jewish conception of marriage, Kiddushin, was an important aspect of my Jewish journey and required me to answer some significant questions. How is my relationship made sacred? How do I make it holy? Even beginning to address such questions was difficult: for some reason, I felt as if I was required to be in a “sacred” place with my spouse it order to begin the process of considering such things, which brought me around in a circle, of course, trying to determine what “sacred” actually looks like.
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