...And he heard the Voice speaking to him...
I've been agonizing about what to put on Avi's monument, besides the name and dates. How could anyone even attempt to captue the meaning of Avi's short but rich life in just a few words?
I can't, so my family chose a few words from Avi's Bar Mitzvah Torah reading, specifically the special portion for the Eight Day of Chanukah. The title of this entry is a translation of the Hebrew that will be carved into the stone.
Here is the complete verse:
Numbers 7:89, JPS 1917 translation:
"And when Moses went into the tent of meeting that He might speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the ark-cover that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and He spoke unto him."
Avi's devotion to Judaism, to Torah and to his fellow human beings came at the behest of the Voice that spoke continuously to him. That Voice speaks to each of us, if only we would listen. Avi chose to listen.
I can't, so my family chose a few words from Avi's Bar Mitzvah Torah reading, specifically the special portion for the Eight Day of Chanukah. The title of this entry is a translation of the Hebrew that will be carved into the stone.
Here is the complete verse:
Numbers 7:89, JPS 1917 translation:
"And when Moses went into the tent of meeting that He might speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the ark-cover that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and He spoke unto him."
Avi's devotion to Judaism, to Torah and to his fellow human beings came at the behest of the Voice that spoke continuously to him. That Voice speaks to each of us, if only we would listen. Avi chose to listen.
posted by Jay Lapidus at 10:43 PM
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