
There Was Night and There Was Morning
A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption
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Narrated by:
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Sara Sherbill
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Sara Sherbill
About this listen
A searing memoir about growing up in a fiercely loving, abusive rabbinical family in which the author's father, the charismatic head of a splinter Orthodox religious community, demands unswerving loyalty—and a commitment to guarding terrible secrets.
Sara Sherbill was raised by a father who was both a representative of God and a broken man harboring an intricate set of secrets. Her riveting story explores what happens when a daughter is tasked with keeping those secrets, and the cost of keeping them. It asks: How do we live with suffering? What does it mean to heal? In the face of unspeakable harm, what can be reclaimed? Sherbill's tale, written with grace and brutal honesty, reveals her struggle to reclaim her identity as a daughter, woman, and now mother. Most of all, it's a story about learning to live alongside our traumas without letting them consume us—what some might call redemption.
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The immense impact to many aspects of Sara’s life including her relationship to Judaism was well documented and made understood by her father’s actions.
This is as insightful, thought provoking, and as wise as it is heartbreaking, sad, gut-wrenching, and enlightening. I’m left with a lot to think about from my own experiences.
Read it or listen as I did. I just finished and my emotions are high.
The struggle between a father being an elevated religious man and an abuser and navigating religion.
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Profoundly moving and multi-layered
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Heartbreaking and powerful
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