At Home With God

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November 21 2023
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Upon greeting mourners, the Ashkenazic tradition is to say “Hamakom Yinachem Etchem,” translated roughly to ‘may the place comfort you,’ with ‘the place’ being a reference to God. Weeks after the massacre, as the entire Jewish people continues to share in the grief of those whose lives were taken and the courageous soldiers who have fallen, we would be right to ask: why is this the term used to speak of God in times of mourning?

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Leon & Rhea Landau in memory of Emanuel & Leah Landau and Jacob & Selma Frost and in memory of Hindu & Pinchas Chaimovitz, Batya Gitel bat Moshe Aaron, Yosef Malachi Geudalia HY"D, Ben Zussman HY"D, and Oma Els z"l and by the Spira family l'ilui nishmat Chanoch ben Moshe Chaim, Dr. Thomas Spira and in loving memory of Dr. Felix Glaubach, אפרים פישל בן ברוך, to mark his first yahrtzeit, by Miriam, his children, grandchildren & great grandchildren