Mornings and Mourning: A Kaddish Journal comedy finances and health

finances and health

and using positive language

decades out of date

plagued by dark yearnings

but also the most promising breakthrough yet: proof that Mercy survived her abduction and then escaped her captors many years ago

Mornings and Mourning: A Kaddish Journal comedy finances and healthAfter the death of her father, Esther Broner wanted to honor him by saying the kaddish, the daily, eleven month long ritual of mourning usually performed by the eldest son. In innocence and ignorance, she finds a small neighborhood synagogue known as "the kaddish synagogue." Because she is a woman seeking to perform a traditionally male task, she is treated with suspicion. Immersed in a world for which she is ill prepared, she finds absurd obstacles