In Loving Memory | Imamother

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Sun, Jul 10 2011, 8:59 pm

In Memory of Miriam Esther Bas Malka Raizel

Today was the Levaya of a very special lady;
A lady who suffered throughout her whole life.
With all of her disabilities and illnesses too,
She raised three children of her own.
She faced each new challenges and she always pulled through.
The ever present smile on her face
Never seemed to fade away.

Even when a woman was so sick for so long,
Still you cling to every last minute;
Every last breath;
Every last chance to hold her hand,
One more time;
One more time.

Now her Neshama is finally free;
Her soul has gone home to its Maker.
And for the first time in sixty long years,
She can finally rest;
Finally at peace.

And though her family who she left behind
Knows that this is for the ultimate good,
Still they miss her very much,
And long- just once more- to feel her touch.
Her Neshama is free from its body; its cage.
It’s amazing she was able to live to this age.
So many times she came so close to dying,
That we thought she would pull through
One more time;
Just one more time.

Now we know it was not meant to be.
It is time for her Neshama to soar away, free.
But how does one say her last good byes
To a wife, a mother, and a friend
Who seemed determined to survive?

amother

Mon, Jul 11 2011, 4:51 am

I hate to be nit-picky on your nit-picking, Grandmama, but if this is a Writing Club we probably all want to improve our writing, no?

So, a Meilitz Yosher is an advocate for justice, justice being a noun. So a woman can be a Melitzas Yosher. But the noun does not change. Thanks for listening....

(A similar error, perhaps, is when someone is referred to as "She was nifteres". Nifteres is the present tense as in, he is niftar, she is nifteres. In the past, he was niftar, she was nifterah (assuming there is such as thing as correct grammar in mixing two languages.) You can, however, refer to her as "the nifteres".

May she have a lichtigeh gan eden and all her family be consoled, & may we all hear only besoros tovos.

Grandmama

Mon, Jul 11 2011, 8:52 pm

amother wrote:

I have seen it written both ways, so I am not sure which is the right way.

" clarification:a male is a mailitz yosher, a female is a melitza yishara. may the rebetzen be a melitza yeshara for all of klal yisroel. ..."

I was not the one that originated the phrase, but whatever it is, may she be that and more!