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Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby, found stoned to death along with a friend by Palestinian terrorists near his Tekoa home in 2001. This profoundly moving prose-poem laces together Jewish tradition, memory, love and faith as the writer-mother recounts her transformation from shock to grief and compassion. Singular in its honesty and depth of emotion, it will leave you forever changed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

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Sherri Mandell, an American immigrant to Israel, offers this hauntingly beautiful memoir of a year of grief following the horrific murder of her 13-year-old son, Koby, found stoned to death along with a friend by Palestinian terrorists near his Tekoa home in 2001. This profoundly moving prose-poem laces together Jewish tradition, memory, love and faith as the writer-mother recounts her transformation from shock to grief and compassion. Singular in its honesty and depth of emotion, it will leave you forever changed. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

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Mandell, an American-born writer (Writers of the Holocaust), who has lived with her family in Israel since 1996, not only had to deal with the loss of the oldest of her four children, 13-year-old Koby, but also had to cope with the horrific way in which he lost his life. On May 8, 2001, Koby and a friend, Yosef, played hooky from school to hike in a canyon close to their home in Tekoa, a West Bank settlement on disputed land. Koby and Yosef were found bludgeoned to death with stones, an act attributed to Palestinian terrorists. The author writes movingly about her beloved son and brings him to life as an energetic, curious adolescent who loved books and sports. Despite the despair that engulfed her in the first days after Koby's death, the author's strong bond with her husband, Rabbi Seth Mandell, and her deep religious faith allowed her to fully experience the painful process of mourning, deal with the guilt she felt about living in an unsafe place and find an inspiring direction for her life. The text is laced with references to prayer and the Jewish traditions that Mandell relied on to help her understand why God had taken her son. Determined not to let their lives be ruled by hate, the Mandells have established the Koby Mandell Foundation, which sponsors healing retreats for women bereaved by terrorist violence as well as a camp for children whose parents or siblings have been killed by terrorists. Unfortunately, Mandell does not fully address in this moving account the complicated political situation in the Middle East that has led, in part, to the escalating, relentless violence that cost her son his life. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592641512
  • Publisher: Toby Press LLC, The
  • Publication date: 1/28/2009
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 242
  • Sales rank: 708,236
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Cave 1
Chapter 1 The Cave 3
Chapter 2 The Vessel 5
Chapter 3 The New Land 9
Chapter 4 Contractions of Death 13
Chapter 5 Koby's Death 17
Chapter 6 The Messiah and the Day that Koby was Born 25
Chapter 7 Elijah's Appearance at Koby's Circumcision 31
Chapter 8 The World-to-Come 41
Chapter 9 Potato Chips at the Funeral 45
Chapter 10 The Shiva and the Faces of God 51
Chapter 11 The Canyon and the Spring 57
Chapter 12 Entering the Sabbath 65
Chapter 13 Levels of Pain 71
Chapter 14 The Bullet and the Jewelry Box 73
Chapter 15 The Shooting Star 81
Chapter 16 Koby's Birthday--Becoming Holy Beggars 85
Chapter 17 The Bar Mitzvah 89
Chapter 18 The Cricket 93
Chapter 19 The Broken Glass 97
Chapter 20 Shimon Bar Yochai 99
Chapter 21 Guilt 105
Part 2 The Bird's Nest 109
Chapter 22 Hope 111
Chapter 23 Bird Stories 115
Chapter 24 Thanksgiving Blessings 123
Chapter 25 First Born 127
Chapter 26 Chanukah 133
Chapter 27 Faith 137
Chapter 28 The Language of God 143
Chapter 29 Signs and Dreams 147
Chapter 30 The Family 151
Chapter 31 The Reporters 155
Chapter 32 Pain and Forgiveness 159
Chapter 33 God's Silence 161
Chapter 34 A Hierarchy of Suffering 165
Chapter 35 Purim 167
Chapter 36 My Grandmother's Mantra 173
Chapter 37 Humility 177
Chapter 38 Heaven 181
Chapter 39 The Deer 183
Chapter 40 Our Wedding Anniversary 187
Chapter 41 Not Knowing 191
Chapter 42 Passover 2002 193
Chapter 43 Jacob's Ladder 197
Chapter 44 Another Shimon Bar Yochai Story 201
Chapter 45 The Koby Mandell Foundation 203
Chapter 46 Gulls on the Beach 207
Chapter 47 The Bird's Nest 211
Chapter 48 A Year On 219
Chapter 49 Koby's Articles 223
Appendix About the Foundation 227
Bibliography 229
Acknowledgments 231

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