Parshas Beshalach is about memory and forgetting. How can a People who has just witnessed miracles that shook the world—the plagues, the Exodus, the splitting of the sea—only days later, forget? They panic. They complain. They say, “Was it for the lack of graves in Egypt that you took us out to die in the wilderness…?” How can you forget something so overwhelming?
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When my father (olav haShalom) was saying Kaddish for his own father, he once told me something very sincere. He said he felt a little disappointed with the Kaddish – the memorial prayer for the dead. He said, “It doesn’t say anything about the person who passed away. It doesn’t describe their life, their goodness, […]