So many funerals. So much heartbreak, so much to cry for.

More than anything what punched me in the gut this week was a shiva visit with so many young children in their cute cartoon t-shirts with ripped collars because these sweet young kids were among the mourners sitting shiva (for their father) in accordance with the Jewish custom that the immediate family of the deceased makes a symbolic tear in their shirts at the funeral as a sign of bereavement.