Eulogy for Father :: Eulogies Eulogy

Eulogy for FatherOn behalf of my entire family, I need to thank all of you for your compassion and for macrocosm present here today. For those of you who dont have it away me, my name is Mauri-Lynne, and Im Lionels daughter. Dad was devoted to every one of you. We all commit that youll share your memories of him with us, if not today then in the weeks and months to come. My father was connected to the practice and preservation of Jewish demeanor. His spectral beliefs informed everything he did. in particular fond of traditional music, he and I spent many hours sense of hearing to the treasured recordings hed collected over the years. We spoke regularly about our religious and communal responsibility as Jews, particularly our responsibilities to G-d.Jewish mystics explain that forwards manifest creation, everything that ever would be was contained within the Creator as unmingled potentiality. This field without end created vessels through which its churchman energy could pass and differentiate, apiece representing a specific attribute, such as wisdom, compassion, kindness and strength. The energy being transmitted was so powerful that the vessels shattered. It is said that some of these shattered pieces of divine energy fell to earth as sparks where they have remained all these eons.He and I believe that one of our primary responsibilities to G-d is to repair the world. In Hebrew, we peal this process tikkun olam. We accomplish this by acting prescribed mitzvot or levelheaded works. We believe that every mitzvah or honorable act, raises those divine sparks. traditional teachings state that when the repair is complete, we usher in the Messianic Age. Of the many mitzvot, performing acts of loving-kindness, or chesed, is considered one of the most important. No one understood this religious obligation more clearly than my father it was one of his primary life directives. Each of you is here today because youve experienced my fathers kindness, conce rn and generosity in some way. Several months ago, when I couldnt sleep, I turned on late-night TV and watched the songwriter/singer, Billy Joel, entertaining a college audience. Someone asked about a particular song, and he answered it was written in response to a head his young daughter had asked about death. She wanted to know where people went when they died. He answered that they go into the hearts of the people who loved them. Just look into the eyeball of the people sitting all around you.