The Blessing of a Broken Heart / Koby Mandell was 13 years old when he and his friend Yosef were brutally stoned to death in a cave in the heart of the Judean desert. This is an absorbing painful yet beautiful account of life with Toby written by his mother which also shares her thoughts and emotions during the initial stages of mourning. Koby Mandell was just thirteen-years-old on May 8th 2001, when he and his friend cut school to go hiking. Their bodies were found the next day. The boys had been brutally stoned to death in a cave in the heart of the Judean desert. The extreme cruelty of this act of terror shocked the world. How does a family cope with the loss of a child through such horror? Koby's mother Sherri has penned this absorbing, deeply painful and yet strangely beautiful account of her loss sharing her thoughts and emotions as she moves through the first stages of mourning. Struggling to find a way to carry on, she embarks on a journey of discovery and growing faith as she endeavors to understand her pain in the context of 3,000 years of Jewish history and tradition."--jacket

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Mourning / Terrorism,international / Death
Classification	296.7 MAN
Publisher	London, England, The Toby Press, 2003
Edition	2nd
Subject	MourningTerrorism, internationalDeathMurderGrief--Bereavement--LossBereavement--Religious aspects--Judaism--Meditations.Mothers and sonsParents of murder victims--Israel.Mandell, Yaakov Natan, 1987-2001--Death and burial.Children--Death--Religious Aspects--Judaism
Description	233
ISBN	9781592640294
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