Thank you for creating such a meaningful shloshim event. You proved the power of love, of sharing, of being kind and supportive. Love you and all your kids, always.

Jake, Hearing you talk about your beautiful, loving relationship with Linda is a blessing.
She was a wonderful person and will be missed greatly. Thank you for sharing your deep feelings.

Jake, you always-touching words about Linda, whose memory I bless, triggered my memory of this poem. For your love:

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

By E. E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you


here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart


i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Source: Complete Poems: 1904-1962 (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1991)

Hi Jake,
Shloshim already, it seems incredible.
Could you possibly record the ceremony so that friends and family in Israel can watch it later on?

Dear Jake - It is hard to believe that shloshim for Linda zl is approaching so quickly. I will do my best to be awake at 2:30 am in yerushalayim to honor her memory & be with all of you. Sending love & wishes for a restful & rejuvenating Shabbes - Rosalind