Requiem for Rabin

Jerusalem Post | April 24, 1998| | Copyright

Michael Ajzenstadt
Jerusalem Post
04-24-1998
The requiem is one of the best ways to honor the dead. Why do we have to sing glorious music in the name of dead people? Isn't it more worthwhile to sing for the glory of those who are alive? If we have to praise someone or something in song, why wouldn't we praise God or nature instead of dead people as has been the tradition for many centuries?

Praising the dead, or celebrating life through the memory of the dead, is something no one can avoid. Listen for example to the Kaddish and its beautiful traditional melody. It is a ...

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