Mrs Erika Needelman - Life Coach
She knew she would be young when her father died. She knew because she saw how much younger all of her friend’s parents were as compared to her own.
The young Erika grew up, married and had children. Her father, although elderly, was still alive and a loving grandparent. And then, one day, her father-in-law, who had been perfectly healthy, died. Just like that.
She had to make sense of her elderly sick father still being alive, while her relatively young, healthy father-in-law was not. She had to support a grieving husband while she herself was also grieving. It was a hard time.
One lesson she took to heart was to enjoy whatever time she had with her father. During the last bit of his life, she made sure to have him over and to visit him. She made sure that her children knew their Zaidy.
Now that he has passed on, she misses her father. But she also feels so sad that her children have no Zaidies.
How she aches for her father to continue shepping nachas.
And as the only frum family members, she and her husband know it is up to them and their children to continue giving their Zaidies nachas up in Shamayim. With that in mind, Mrs. Needelman and her husband continue to work on themselves to grow in Yiddishkeit and in yiras Shamayim. Because after all, her children do have Zaidies. They just have a different kind of relationship with them now.
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