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     The Blessing of a Broken Heart

an award-winning play by Todd Salovey

based on the award-winning book by

Sherri Mandell

directed by Yael Valier

designed by John Krug

in cooperation with

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Blessing's

2022 run is over.

For info about future performances or possible future streaming options,  subscribe HERE.

Click HERE for the production page for more information about the cast, speakers, crew and making of this production.

Blessing Trailer click 

Photo credits, Karen Feldman, 2022

"Watching [this] play was a profound experience." ~ Sara Yoheved Rigler

"riveting...sensitive...poignant" ~Assaf Berznitsky, Producer, Khan Repertory 

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  For more reviews and media, click HERE.

Sherri Mandell wrote an inspiring book about her search for meaning in the year after her son Koby's murder. Todd Salovey's play faithfully animates her journey with sensitivity and humor. 

The Blessing of a Broken Heart opens on March 14th, 2022, in Jerusalem's Beit Mazia Theater and goes on to other locations. Todd Salovey’s play, based on Sherri Mandell’s National Jewish Book Award-winning book, won the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. It tells the true story of Sherri’s journey with and through grief after her son Koby’s vicious murder during the Second Intifada.

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Each performance is followed by an interview with a guest scholar. We will be discussing the big issues of good and evil, faith and doubt, the benevolence--or otherwise--of God, and human resilience. 

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Dates, cities, speakers:

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March 14, 2022, 16:00, Beit Mazia Theater,  Jerusalem, with Sherri Mandell

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March 14, 2022, 20:00, Beit Mazia Theater,  Jerusalem, with Sherri Mandell

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March 15, 2022, 16:00, Beit Mazia Theater,  Jerusalem, with R' Seth Mandell

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March 15, 2022, 20:00, Beit Mazia Theater,  Jerusalem, with R' Seth Mandell

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March 30, 2022, 19:30, Center Stage Theater, Ra'anana, with R' Stewart (Shmuel) Weiss

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March 31, 2022, 19:30, Heichal Tarbut GE, Gush Etzion, with Sherri & R' Seth Mandell

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For more information about Blessing --  locations, background, cast, crew, speakers, click HERE.

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Blessing's

2022 run is over. For info about future performances or possible future streaming options,  subscribe HERE.

Sherri and Seth Mandell on stage post-performance with director, Yael Valier. Photo by Beth Lanin