Susan Cain: A Daughter’s Bittersweet Longing for Her Mother [Divergence 4/6]
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Susan Cain: A Daughter’s Bittersweet Longing for Her Mother [Divergence 4/6]

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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

The Transformation of ‘Next Year in Jerusalem’ in the Postwar American Haggadah” by Jonathan D. Sarna

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