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In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to bestselling author Susan Cain about her bittersweet relationship with her mother, an Orthodox Jew and daughter of a prominent rabbi. 

Susan’s book Bittersweet explores their journey together and grapples with what it means when our lives and relationships don’t exactly meet our expectations. In this episode we discuss:

• How do our relationships with our parents change in adulthood? 
• Why are sad songs often some of our favorites? 
• How can we make meaning of the yearning we experience?

Tune in to hear a conversation about “longing for the source” and “uniting with the beloved of the soul.”

Interview begins at 11:01.

Susan Cain is the  ​​No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. She is also a speaker, influencer, and the creator of the newsletter community thequietlife.net.

References:

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain

“Rabbi Israel Schorr, 94; Led Brooklyn Synagogue”

The Letters Of J.R.R. Tolkien

Beit Yaakov on Torah

“Anthem” by Leonard Cohen

Einstein and the Rabbi by Naomi Levy

“Rav Shagar: Zionism and Exile Within the Home” by Ari Ze’ev Schwartz and Levi Morrow

Divrei Soferim 16 by Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin

Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought by David Bashevkin

Avodat Yisrael by Israel Hopstein of Kozhnitz

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