While my heart breaks for everyone effected by the massacre at Virginia Tech, I’ll be lighting my candles this Friday for Liviu Librescu, the 76 year-old Holocaust survivor who gave his life to save his students. The unbelievable irony that his death occurred one day after Yom Hashoah shouldn’t be lost on anyone.
This man is why we don’t forget. This sacrifice is what we don’t forget.
Anyone can survive — he lived.
I hope those he saves remember what he did for them and choose to live.
Liviu Librescu - Of Blessed Memory - זיכרונו לברכה
Liviu Librescu - May the memory of the righteous be blessed- זכר צדיק לברכה
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So Mote It Be!
Amein, Amein, v’Amein
my young son related this story to me just as i was walking into the grocery store the other day. thank you for giving me his name.
may his memory serve as a blessing…
Om shanti, shanti….
Here are a couple of beautiful prayers from different traditions that are responses to what happened at VA Tech.
–from The Journey
— from Nine Ravens
The events that happened in the US deffenately are horrible. Here in Israel, people are numb (as a result of living in a reality that terrorism and occupation are part of. just today there was a terror attempt in the international school in Gaza.) - and the whole thing did not get the reference it should.
Shelo Ted’u Od Za’ar
שלא תדעו עוד צער
BTW, you should say זכרו לברכה, instead of זכרונו לברכה.
זכרון relates to memory as in remembering something.
זכר relates to the memory of someone.
Dotan,
Thanks for the correction on the Hebrew — always always appreciated.
Also — thanks for reminding us how insulated we are here in the US. There have been several editorial cartoons this weekend that have point out the same thing. While not lessening the tragedy of what happened in VA Tech, the daily bombings in Iraq and other parts of the world kill large numbers of people regularly.
We grieve for those at VA Tech and around the world.
I admit, I have two conflicting feelings about VA Tech. There’s the need to not get brought down by the enormity of this tragedy and the desire to have compassion for those killed.
As a stay at home dad, I find it easy to get caught up in the sensationalism of the way stories like this get covered in the media. So I have to protect myself to a certain extent, too. So I watched a few stories, but at this point, I’m avoiding it and honoring the dead in my own way.