Monday, April 8, 2013

70th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising...

Today we mark the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising on Holocaust Remembrance Day as well as the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."  Park of the Yizkor Prayer says:

Yizkor El-ohim…

May the L-rd remember
the souls of the holy and pure ones
who were killed, murdered, slaughtered, burned, drowned, and strangled
for the sanctification of the Name,
because, without making a vow, I shall give to charity on their behalf.

As reward for this,
may their souls be bound in the Bond of Life,
together with the souls of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah;
and together with the other righteous men and women in the Garden of Eden.

Now let us respond: Amen.
 
 

celebrating the slender strands of synchronicity: part one

As our anniversary vacation/retreat ripens on the shore of Lake Gardner, and Brother Sun has rejoined us for another day of beauty and warmt...