US Navy Rabbi opens (Columbia) ceremony with Hebrew poem

THE JERUSALEM POST ^ | 02-04-03 | INTERNET STAFF

[veronica]

Rabbi Harold Robinson, a captain in the US Navy, started the ceremony for Columbia's fallen Astronauts quoting Israeli national poet Haim Bialik's poem "After my Death"

After my death mourn me this way: "There was a man--and see: he is no more; before his time this man died and his life's song in mid-bar stopped; and oh, it is sad! One more song he had and now the song is gone for good, Gone for good!

The US Navy Rabbi went on to give a prayer in Hebrew.

[veronica]

FYI.

[dennisw]

A boost for the Jewish people and a thumb in the eye for the Islamics. If anyone thinks a message has not been sent, he is dead wrong! Muslims will take notice. And thanks to all the Christians at the service and elsewhere who listened to the rabbi's fine words. Were willing to bear with the Hebrew!

[dennisw]

Different Rabbi than today.
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Sun Feb 2,11:15 AM ET

Rabbi Richard Margolis leads Temple Beth Sholom members in a moment of silence during the Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003 memorial service for the Columbia Astronauts in his Melbourne, Fla. temple. Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, one of the seven crew members who died in the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia on Saturday, had visited the temple last fall. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

 

NASA photo of Israel, Egypt, Sinai and more from a few years ago

 

[veronica]

A boost for the Jewish people and a thumb in the eye for the Islamics. If anyone thinks a message has not been sent, he is dead wrong!

Exactly my thoughts.

[KriegerGeist]

"And thanks to all the Christians at the service and elsewhere who listened to the rabbi's fine words. Were willing to bear with the Hebrew!"

More than willing to bear with the Hebrew...he was reading our (the Christian) Bible in it's original language.
Anyone who has really looked into the history of the Bible knows that for some reason God made it a point that the Bible would be written in Hebrew and Greek. It has something to do with interchangeable letters and numbers.

Anyway, it's a beautiful language and I wish I could read, write and speak it.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Hmmmm... Will hte mainstream media let out a horrified shriek because a apecific religon was present at the ceremony? No doubt they would if Jesus was brought up. I'm glad Bush is allowing religon and the Constitution (there is no seperation between church and state, the federal govt simply can't establish a religon. Although it's OK for states to do so) to make a come back.

[Spirited]

The only "verbotten" is Jesus. Anything else is dandy. Much of the world hates him because he was a Jew, in any case.

I gather that Hebrew was used for the prayer, rather than the poem. Perhaps English or modern Hebrew for the poem.

I remember when the Jewish people did not know Hebrew other than as a religious entity. It is magnificent that the language was reacknowledged in 1948 and successfully constructed in a modern form to unify the nation.

How very beautiful to honor Col. Ramon.

[lavaroise]

Shma Israel...

[lavaroise]

If there ever was a doubt about who the real lambs are in this world, the signs from heaven are unmistakable.

[montag813]

When I see that map it just makes me sick to think of all the land (and OIL) that Israel gave away for a stupid promise of "peace" (as if they couldn't kick Arab ass blinfolded) at Camp David. All the land was given to the Hebrews by the Lord...if fact they were instructed to cross the river Jordan and kick out all the inhabitants East of there, etc. There is never any need for Israel to appease the Arabs, except "world opinion". Somehow the timeless rules of warfare and conquest apply to every nation on earth, except one...Israel.

[dennisw]

It would have been difficult to hold onto the Sinai. Israel just didn't want to have the IDF tied down there. Was not considered strategic like the Golan Heights.

[Optimist]

Was this the Hebrew prayer referred to above? If so, then a little explanation is in order for the non-Hebraic and/or Christians following this thread.

This prayer, the mourner's kaddish, is recited by those in mourning (up to a year) following the death of a family member (or others in more reform congregations). It is also recited upon the anniversary of their passing. As you can see it makes no reference to death or mourning, but rather praises G-d for his omnipotence, accepts the righteousness of his judgement, and asks his blessings upon us all.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Bump!!