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hatam_soferet) wrote2007-05-16 09:53 am
hatam_soferet) wrote2007-05-16 09:53 am
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Funeral yesterday.
I'm blown away by how terrific W's friends are. They're unbelievable. There were a lot of people at the chapel, but most of them were too infirm to make it out to the cemetery. It was a pretty long way to the cemetery, but a whole crowd of Chovevei boys and JTS lads and one or two Friends From Elsewhere came despite that (one even came down from New Haven), and because of them there was a minyan at the graveside and the family could say kaddish.
They never met W's grandpa, nor even his mum and uncle. They took an enormous chunk out of the middle of a weekday to make this long trek out to a cemetery the other side of Queens. And they helped fill in the grave, with shovels, in suits and ties, until the whole pile of earth was shovelled away. Oh, and one of them lost his own father a few months ago and still came, and I can't actually find a way to express how incredible that is.
It's very humbling to have friends who will give so much.
I'm blown away by how terrific W's friends are. They're unbelievable. There were a lot of people at the chapel, but most of them were too infirm to make it out to the cemetery. It was a pretty long way to the cemetery, but a whole crowd of Chovevei boys and JTS lads and one or two Friends From Elsewhere came despite that (one even came down from New Haven), and because of them there was a minyan at the graveside and the family could say kaddish.
They never met W's grandpa, nor even his mum and uncle. They took an enormous chunk out of the middle of a weekday to make this long trek out to a cemetery the other side of Queens. And they helped fill in the grave, with shovels, in suits and ties, until the whole pile of earth was shovelled away. Oh, and one of them lost his own father a few months ago and still came, and I can't actually find a way to express how incredible that is.
It's very humbling to have friends who will give so much.