Mareh Makom

Loss

• Loss: when the world collapses in an instant and the soul must choose between blessing and silence
  What happens to a person when they lose everything, and is there a right way to react?
  Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there, the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be blessed.
• Loss: When the spirit itself falls sick with the illness of death
  What is more frightening—death itself, or the knowledge that we won't feel a thing?
  And therefore there is no doubt that the spirit too is mortal [can die], if the agonies of disease take hold of it too from time to time, for pain and illness – both are the artisans of death.
• Loss: When fate invites us to an impossible love
  Can you love what destroyed you?
  Not merely to bear what is necessary, and even less to conceal it - all idealism is a lie in the face of what is necessary - but to love it.
• Loss: when pain becomes an identity and absence becomes presence
  What happens when we don't grieve what we've lost, but become what we've lost?
  In mourning, the world becomes poor and empty; in melancholia – it is the ego itself that becomes so.
• Loss: The labyrinth with no exit – on the hope that persists between the stages
  Do we ever truly stop grieving, or do we just learn to live inside the labyrinth?
  The one thing that usually persists through all these stages is hope."