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Thursday, September 14 the yahrtziet
In the Jewish Religion Today is my mother’s yahrtziet and thank god for my brother matthew and his wife dahlia who diligently remind me every year. But this year came with a special surprise. My sister-in-law Dahlia wrote to tell me of this surprise. She had been searching the Hebrew birthdates vs the American ones and discovered that my mother’s birthday in America was and will always be the same day as her Yahrtziet on the Hebrew calendar. So her day of remembrance is the same day she was born. My mother always, the phsychic, always the predictor, always the one who knew what was going to happen before anyone else, had predicted the anniversary of her death with the day of her birth. I believe, as Dahlia does, that means we are supposed to celebrate her life like a birthday, not mourn her death like a dark fog. Nothing is coincidence. More and more, I believe this to be true. I shall quote from Dahlia directly below... “ Your Mom never stopped amazing me with her view into the future and her insights. I don't think there is any coincidences in anything she ever did!" No I don't think so either. Not so long ago I found a letter she wrote to me about the first president Bush, when we were fighting Iraq..in the letter she said simply, "Has mankind learned nothing?" I ask myself this question all the time. Maybe my mom, up there, or flying over us, or reborn again, or scattered as energy across the universe, has the answers now. I'm still learning. But for today, I light the candle, I remember death and celebrate life at the same time and I hope tomorrow brings more of the latter, less of the former for us all.
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