 | The day of the wedding arrived. Hundreds of beggars took their places around
tables laden with the best and the tastiest food money could buy. But then
tragedy struck
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I understand what the second group are saying, but why waste good food when people are starving. That would be a greater sin. Just like at a shiva, let both groups eat in a quiet and dignified manner in memory of the deceased.
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This parable, dear Rabbi, brings to focus for me the whole purpose of my painful life. I was blessed with many intellectual gifts, but eary, realized that I could not partake of the life that was there for me. I worked all of my life with the poor and sick.
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This is a beautiful parable, Rabbi. Thank you for sharing with us.
My daughter will be wed May 1st, this coming year. Yet yesterday, with the completion of the Parsha, both of us were talking about how we were left with a feeling of grief, instead of joy. She mourned the loss of the Patriarchs, their wives and the 'friends' she had met once again as she read the book of Genesis.
Her mourning was not only for this loss, but the knowledge of the losses of the future nation of Israel, based upon their straying from Ha'shem and his law. She began to cry to me, as only a 20-year old girl can do, about the loss of the Temple, and the loss she would perhaps experience someday if something happened to her future husband, even if it was in 50 years from now. "How can I live through such a loss, Mama? How can I love so much and let myself open to such potential for grief?"
I will send her a link to your article now, as I sent her one from Sara Esther Crispe's own wedding, yesterday to try and calm her. She is a young woman who feels deeply and will understand the meaning of what you have shared with us.
She, like her mother, is of the group that would mourn with the father, even if she had never met him before.
Thank you so much.
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why i think that the second group is right how could you eat even if you are terribly hungry if someone died.
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