[Gathnet] After the 'shiva'

[judy white]

Dear all,

Well it has been a week after the ‘Shiva’.  During
that time we did not leave the house at all. It became
like a synagogue where morning and evening prayers
were held every day..The place was full. And between
the hours of 4 and 10 pm (as I had requested to limit
it to that time) people came by.  Hundreds of people
came… It was said often how even though Eli was so
modest and gentle, his light shone toward so many
people and they loved him. They came to express that. 
 
So much food was brought that I had no room for it
even in the freezer and I had to give much away..Even
our mail was picked up and garbage thrown out.  On 
Shabbat we were not to mourn.  We took off our
mourning clothes and we went out to the synagogue and
on Saturday night we were back to the ‘Shiva’.  On
Sunday morning services were again held at the house
and after that we got up from our Shiva which ended
then and we went to the gravesite to say the prayers
there. 
And then we went home.  
It was such a surreal kind of time…totally removed
from the real world ..
It has been a week now since we got up from our
‘shiva’ and went back to the daily routine of the real
world.
But how hard it is to get back to the real world when
Eli is no longer ther..where I will not see his
smiling face again..  Even now it seems to me like the
whole thing – the last two and a half years - was a
bad dream - it could not have really happened like
that...and we will wake up from this dream and he will
come in the door with some groceries…

I hope that I will continue to maintain the contact
with the people in these two wonderful communities –
in Bet Shemesh and in Jerusalem.  There is much
unfinished business in my mind which I need to talk
about and things I need to do.  I miss my family and
wish we could be together now.
Judy





		
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