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The refreshments almost always include chickpeas (garbanzo beans) and
beer. To understand why, we need to understand the main reasons behind the shalom zachor.
Love can only blossom in an open heart. When our hearts are closed we cannot feel affection, even when that affection is really there. And what makes a heart close is fear.
My hope is that this
letter, an artifice to ease my double grief over your death and cremation, will
reach other Jews in the same plight, children and parents.
To one whose self is his body, death of the body is death of the self. But for one whose self is his love, awe and faith, there is no death, only a passing. From a state of confinement in the body, he makes the passage to liberation. He continues to work within...
