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When well-meaning help doesn't meet your actual needs

During shiva people kept bringing food but I'm diabetic and everything was cake and bagels and I felt ungrateful complaining about kindness when I'm supposed to be focused on mourning.

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Care that misses its mark can create additional burden disguised as blessing.

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“Where Are You with Jewish mourning — shiva shloshim yahrzeit?”

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