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Aug 2024
55m 48s

Listen Again: Rabbi Steve Leder—Don’t Co...

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How should you show up for people in grief? What do you say? What should you do? Why is it that beauty can exist alongside deep suffering? What can be said at funerals when the person who died was complicated? These are just a few of the questions I wanted to ask Steve Leder—a bestselling author and a rabbi who has presided over a thousand funerals with wisd ... Show More
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