Part of a bookcase in the home where the shiva minyan was.
Week 4-/Netzach (ENDURANCE)-Day 6/Yesod (FOUNDATION)
"Next time when you sit close to a dying person, you might like to practice this same way. You are there, present one hundred percent, with stability, solidity, and peace. This is very important. You are the support of that dying person, and he or she needs very much your stability, your peace. To accompany a dying person, you need to be your best-don't wait until that moment to practice. You practice in your daily life to cultivate your peace, your solidity."
-Thich Nhat Hanh-
Another shiva minyan but for a different friend whose father died. Once more I received a personal invitation to be part of the minyan and asked to lead a niggun to honor the fallen father. As I davened (prayed) I ran some niggunim through my head searching for something that would add to the moment. Then I noticed a jar on the shelf with the label "Daddy and me". The man we were mourning was 96yrs old when he died and his daughter said he did not want to leave this world. Sigh. Death and life are so closely bound together.
After nightfall on Thursday:
BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM
ASHER KID-E-SHA-NU BE-MITZ-VO-TAV VETZI-VA-NU AL SEFI-RAT HA-OMER.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.
Today is twenty-seven days which is three weeks and six days of the Omer.
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