Apr 27, 2026 · 1 hr · 18 segments
When the unthinkable happens, what remains of faith? Journalist Sarah Wildman, who lost her young daughter, joins Rabbi Shai Held in a searching conversation about grief, love, and the struggle to go…
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Sarah, I want to begin with you, and can you share a little bit about your daughter Orlee's journey, um, her diagnosis with cancer, the illness, and ultimately her death?
Uh, I know it's a tough subject, but, um, and I will start by telling you that Orlee was fourteen when she died of liver cancer after three and a half years in cancer care, uh, a full liver transplant, and many, many, many surgeries, including two craniotomies for metastases to her brain.
But I actually don't love beginning with the question of her death and her suffering because I think it actually does flatten her experience into that of victimization or sadness or loss, as opposed to the person that she was, which was so incredibly filled with life.
And I know we'll be talking about trauma and about the anticipation of trauma and child loss.
And that said, I wanted to take a moment to give you a snapshot of Orlee, and some of the people here know her, um, or-- and some of, some of the people here who were at her funeral service might recognize some of these words.
But I'm going to read a little something that I'd written about her because I'd rather you see her, rather than thinking only of her as a child who died and thinking only of her in the depth of that sadness and only of this question of suffering.
Sarah, I want to begin with you, and can you share a little bit about your daughter Orlee's journey, um, her diagnosis with cancer, the illness, and ultimately her death?
Uh, I know it's a tough subject, but, um, and I will start by telling you that Orlee was fourteen when she died of liver cancer after three and a half years in cancer care, uh, a full liver transplant, and many, many, many surgeries, including two craniotomies for metastases to her brain.
But I actually don't love beginning with the question of her death and her suffering because I think it actually does flatten her experience into that of victimization or sadness or loss, as opposed to the person that she was, which was so incredibly filled with life.
And I know we'll be talking about trauma and about the anticipation of trauma and child loss.
And that said, I wanted to take a moment to give you a snapshot of Orlee, and some of the people here know her, um, or-- and some of, some of the people here who were at her funeral service might recognize some of these words.
But I'm going to read a little something that I'd written about her because I'd rather you see her, rather than thinking only of her as a child who died and thinking only of her in the depth of that sadness and only of this question of suffering.
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