Navigating "The Squeeze" of Av

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We're in the Hebrew month of Av, traditionally a time of accessing heartbreak. Rabbi Shir Meira Feit offers guidance for navigating what they describe as "the squeeze" — honoring grief not by forcing joy away, but by sitting with contraction with honesty and curiosity. They teach we can trust that life's constrictions may serve as a doorway to expansion, just as birth pangs signal the start of some thing wondrous, or the narrow part of a shofar moves into a wider opening. Join Rabbi Shir Meira Feit for music and a meditation on holding grief and joy, allowing one to flow into the other.

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