Two Commandments
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Some of the cruelty at my father's hands was not his fault as he had learned from a dreadfully abusive father himself. I honour my father for all the toil and sweat from his brow with which put bread on our table. I kept his good qualities in my heart and now, though he no longer lives in this world, I love and understand him more than ever.
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I honor my father who died almost 40 years ago. With the passing of years, his memory grows sweeter and my love for him increases. My father was not a verbally expressive man, but he had such a loving heart and I knew he loved me. I realize now what a gift his love was; in fact, it made a crucial difference in my acceptance of myself as a person of value. Thank you. May your soul rest in peace and may you rise in glory.
Likewise, I honor my mother who died 2 years ago. I still miss her and think of her every day. As I grew up, she worked hard to give me the material things that money can buy. She was a deeply wounded woman who allowed few people close to her. I was her best friend who always listened to her and loved her. One week before she died, I was with her when she received inner healing from her deep woundedness as a young child. I was with her when she died, the only person in the room when the light came. May her soul rest in peace and may she rise in glory.
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Basya, my daughter, honors her parents on a daily basis and we thank G-d for her.
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My mother, I honor and thank for all her honesty, hard work, love, honorable human being, kind, and willing to share with people who had less.
My father? Never paid one cent toward our support ... rarely visited us ... had money for everyone but us ... never told his friends he had children.
My last visit to him, he saw my 3 month old daughter -- the only grandchild he lived to see and he didn't bother to even touch her. He then made it very clear, with his finger in my face "I have one child and she's in the house!" - and his finger then went from my face to his house.
Hard to honor him ... he was not a parent. He was not a father to my brother and me. However, had his wife let me know that he was sick and dying, I would have gone to the hospital to help him to die in peace. To give him the chance to say "I'm sorry" -- but would not have expected that from him.
But, his wife and he didn't bother to tell their 'only child' that she has a 1/2 brother and 1/2 sister.
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