A statement from the author:
“I call my book Korban (The Sacrifice) because Liana’s life and death were a sacrifice.”
Whenever I read the famous quote from the Torah, “Man is born with his free will,” I used to say to myself, “Nobody chooses to be in a bad situation. When did I use my free will to ask for a drunk driving accident?” When I thought that in just a few minutes we would have been in our home simply living our lives, I asked myself, “Where is my free will?”
But looking back, I understand now that our free will starts with the chaos. When things do not go well, we have the free will to choose to close ourselves off from others and remain in our sorrow, or to go forward with open arms.
RoseMary H. Cohen received her doctorate degree in Sociology from the Sorbonne in Paris. She married and lived in France with her husband and four children before moving to Los Angeles in 1984.
Dr. Cohen has conducted an international art business since 1985. Although her articles have been published in French and English in several magazines, this is her first book.