Tag: loneliness
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From Loneliness to Belonging (Erev Yom Kippur 5785)

The story of Noah is one of those stories that as kids is really fun and exciting, and then when you read it as an adult, it sits much more heavily on the heart. Noah is a great story, the stuff of legend. God decides to destroy the world after witnessing humanity engaging in evil…
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How A Communal Celebration Reminds Us of the Dangers of Loneliness

This post originally appeared on the Rabbis Without Borders blog. You can read the original here. One of the fastest growing epidemics to affect our individual emotional and physical health is loneliness. Much has been written about loneliness recently, and especially how it can have deleterious effects on our health similar to smoking and even…