For chodesh Av, Karen explores the ways Jewish law ritualizes both national and personal mourning, examining customs of the Three Weeks/Tisha B'Av and personal aveilut. She then interviews Dvora Corn, Co-Founder of Life's Door, about how individuals and couples can be better prepared for coping with illness, end of life and loss. The Av podcast is dedicated by Shelly and Erez Markowitz in loving memory of Erez’s father Yisrael Yechiel Markowitz and his grandmother Rivka Godinger, who both passed away in the month of Menachem Av. In the merit of our Torah learning may their neshamot have an aliyah.Sign up here to receive this podcast to your inbox.If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider sponsoring an episode for $36/₪136 here.