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Jews do mourning well. That’s what I’ve always thought from watching family and friends go through it. It’s what I’ve learned as fact since my father died eleven months ago. There’s a central tension to it. A constant fault line that our customs straddle. It’s the constant struggle of an individual and a member of community. To be sure that’s one of the central themes of Judaism itself. We take…