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Many of us know the song Ima Tagidi Li. It’s sung in moments of joy, trust, and quiet faith. What most people don’t know is that Mrs. Miriam Israeli wrote this song years earlier, after the birth of her oldest daughter — when her family was still growing, when children were being added one by one — a time when the thought that she would one day bury a child simply did not exist. But the unthinkable eventually became her reality.

Throughout his illness, and after his petirah, Mrs. Israeli continued to compose and sing — songs of hope, songs of emunah. Because when a parent loses a child, the only way to keep going is with emunah. Miriam’s emunah and bitachon had been deeply ingrained in her from her parents.

In this episode, Miriam shares her journey with honesty and gentleness — what it means to keep believing, to keep living, and to keep singing, even after the unthinkable has happened.

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Do you remember where you were that Thursday night, Lag BaOmer, almost five years ago, when the stampede happened in Meron? Forty-five kedoshim were killed.
And Dovi Steinmetz was one of them.

That night, Feige Steinmetz stayed awake, frantic, trying to reach her son.
She called him over one hundred times.

“Dovi, if you don’t call me back, I’ll kill you,” she said—half joking, half desperate, like only a mother can be. But he couldn’t call back. He had already been niftar.

And so began Feige’s journey through grief.

She spent time searching for answers—meeting with gedolim, asking questions, hoping to understand why. Eventually, she came to a painful acceptance: some questions will never be answered.

But her son is never far from her heart.

“Grief is always with me,” Feigie says. “Some days I tell it, Okay, today you’re in control. And other days, I tell it, Today, I’m taking control back.”

In this episode, listen to a bereaved mother share her story—
a story filled with deep pain, intense love, and quiet growth.

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Grief can feel like a minute and forever.
In this episode, a mother shares her journey with a son who lived with cystic fibrosis, underwent a double lung transplant, celebrated his bar mitzvah, and was niftar shortly after.

We talk about the quiet choices that shape a family in loss: keeping life fair for siblings during endless hospital stays, preserving normalcy with schoolwork and chores, and refusing to erase a child’s presence from the home. She shares simple line, that is anything but simple. It is not bad, it’s sad; hold pain and joy in the same heart. She talks about how yearly milestones, and daily tefillah can hold you when answers can’t.

For those unsure where to begin, she offers small, doable steps: such as saying a perek of Tehillim tied to a child’s age, and treating each mitzvah as a deposit in a loved one’s “account.” Along the way, her husband’s book, Eight Paths of Purpose, emerges as a gentle field guide for hard seasons.

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