[HANASHIR:9814] Re: songs, in light of today's events

[Danielkare <Danielkare...>]

A few comments about the events of the past few days:  

At a woman's group meeting here in Nashville last night, where I was asked to 
sing, we went around the room and talked about our feelings about these 
horrible events....  Each individual expressed similar feelings, how we have 
all cried for "family" and "friends" who we have lost, even though we never met 
them.  We each felt especially sad hearing about the cell phone calls...most of 
us carry cell phones and it is something we could relate to.  Since one says 
the Shema if they know death is imminent, we sang a very emotional Shema for 
the victims.  We also sang a niggun, to bring into the room the memory/spirtis 
of lives lost, and also (my upbeat, joyous version of...) the Aleinu, to 
celebrate life and creation/Creator.

The good that will come from this terrible tragedy, aside from increased 
security measures in our nation, is that we are all uniting to do good deeds 
and to pray.

-Karen Daniel

------------------------ hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org -----------------------+