I wish I had seen this warning before I turned on my tv this morning while eating breakfast. I haven't been in Israel on Yom Hazikaron in 22 years. I just had forgotten or didn't know. Now, here I am 3 hours later, a roll of toilet paper gone crumpled up beside me, and just got myself to turn off the tv. I just couldn't take another story. Its heartbreaking.

It is depressing, but at the same time, I find it strangely rejuvenating, as people put aside day-to-day life and focus on more important things. I think it's good that we have a day that allows us to take stock of what we have and what we've lost, and how the latter enables the former. Feeling the sorrow of today lets us experience the joy of tomorrow to a far greater degree, I think.

And for me- I feel particularly guilty switching off the channel with the neverending roll of names.

Thanks for the link.

The Unbearable Heaviness
(of remembering)
(Yom Hazikoran)

Feeling the sorrow
of today
lets us experience
the joy of tomorrow
as our hearts restored
turn aside
into gardens of memory
and with a sense of longing
turn the pages
of Jewish history
back.....
back to simpler days
of fresher times
in Solomon's song.

Lisa
She
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