![]() ![]() It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly-that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day. When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for yourself and your own delight. Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure. One of our most beloved sympathy quotes is: Sometimes, just knowing that someone else understands what they are going through can make all the difference. It should be heartfelt and show sincere sympathy, letting the person know that you are there for them and that you care about their lost loved one. You gathered acorns in the park in autumnĪnd leaves eddied over the earth’s scars.A good message is one that offers comfort and hope to the person who is going through the grieving process. ![]() Return in thought to the concert where music flared. In a white room and the curtain fluttered. Remember the moments when we were together You’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully. You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, You watched the stylish yachts and ships (By Martin Niemoller) Try To Praise The Mutilated WorldĪnd wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. (By Sudeep Pagedar) First They Came for the Jews ‘To die, to sleep…to sleep, perchance to dream…’ My dreams are revisions of your yearning: The breaking of ancient hearts reflected by cracks in mine. Over thousands of years, over thousands of miles. Then settle here, to mingle in my modern ears, I sit not within your walls, Jerusalem of Gold.Īncient city of grace and hope, I am far from you.Īncestors’ sobs echo through winding old city streets Water tinkles and trickles in aural sensations,īlue sky opens to forever behind and beyond, Papyrus sways tuft-like in the gentle wind, Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin (Picture: Getty) Tisha b’Av Poem ![]() How will the Rabbis then ? The beginning of any misfortune is of greater moment – Talmud Ta’anit 29a How then are these dates to be reconciled? On the seventh the heathens entered the Temple and ate therein and desecrated it throughout the seventh and eighth and towards dusk of the ninth they set fire to it and it continued to burn the whole of that day. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same – Ronald Reaganġ6. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Five misfortunes befell our fathers… on the ninth of Av.… On the ninth of Av it was decreed that our fathers should not enter the Land, the Temple was destroyed the first and second time, Bethar was captured and the city was ploughed up – Mishnah Ta’anit 4:6ġ3. We demand that people don’t deny the Holocaust, and we can’t ignore the tragedy of another nation – Reuven Rivlinġ4. Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? – Zechariah 7:3ġ5. Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear – Jonathan Sacksġ2. ![]()
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