From Bokuritone, Florida, this is Behind the Bima.

On this episode, the rabbis are joined by author and Rabbi Gershon Schusterman.

Rabbi Shusterman discusses how he handled the death of his first wife at 36 years old with 11 children,

shares insights about how to deal with tragedy, and explains why it took him decades to write his book about his experiences.

Also, Rabbi Brody reveals how he's doing on his commission Rashi tests,

plus the power of a hug.

All this and more, Behind the Bima.

Good evening.

It is Wednesday night 9 p.m. I'm Rabbi F. from Goldberg.

Join by my dear colleague and friend Rabbi Joshua Brody, and we're here to take you.

Behind the bema.

We're here to take you behind the beema.

Rabbi Brody, we've got a very special behind the bema.

A little bit different.

I mean, every behind the bea is inspiring, wonderful, beautiful, but this is a very serious conversation.

Rabbi Schisterman 36 years ago, his wife left that morning feeling healthy and well, and by that night when he put his 11 children to bed, they no longer had a mother.

And how did he deal with that, react to that, overcome that?

He wrote a book, only now, all these years later, and we're going to have a conversation with him. How do you have faith after tragedy and much more? But first, everybody tells us what's going on in your life. Well, I'm actually on Google right now looking at news just to see what's happening in the world. Just to prove to people that we are a live show. I just want to get an idea what's going on out there. It's once a week, you know, like to check and see what's happening in the rest of the world. No, but thank God. Things are good. Thanks are good. Yeah. Yeah. We always welcome, you know, we always welcome the feedback of our listeners. We still debate, you know, should we record this portion and just post this as a podcast like others do?

Do we continue to meet live and banter and talk about what's going on in our lives and be very

contemporary because we're live?

So literally what's going on in the world right now is our subject.

Aaron Judge signed a nine-year deal with the Yankees for $360 million, something like that.

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