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May 29, 2007

Eulogy for Abraham Cleeman (2007)

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Eulogy for Abe Stern (2006)

Tisha B’Av early this year... Indeed, generally: man = microcosm; but sages: micro-Mikdash. Hence: your premature Tisha B’Av = ours... Both as family member and communal leader – he was a powerful personality, leaves indelible imprint on lives of wife, children, grandchildren, all Jewish community. In his personality, paradoxically combined two opposites – firmness and flexibility. וידבר משה אל ראשי המטות – "מטה" – "שבט" – rod/whip. Avraham: both strictness/principle; suppleness/means. At home = loving and giving husband/father/grandfather. At work = disciplinarian; could demand as well as inspire.Used skills as Soc Wrkr (YU)t fulfil sp mission: OUTREACH I remember lsl YU Seminar—was insprtn JSS; set pattern f... Truly /tv rahani -tho othrs claimd credit;sp’l fathr thousandsYoungst mmber large/distngshd famy, h brought thm נחת Presided talentd, committd, loving family Dghtrs=also hs studnts; role model gr-chAbove all: Malka’s heroism...a classcal example Iv/loyaltySaid: hs Death =Churban,TB. But trad: glimmer hope/conslatnבמנחת ט"ב נולד המשיח|.איכה: קרא עלי מועד.לכן: אין תחנון, צ״צ בשבת חיד״א: לכן לא מיחו חכמים’על בנות דאהר חצות מתעסקות בכל כחן לכבד הבית ולתקן המטות, חיזקו ידיהם לקבוע אמונת הגאולה ולא יתיאשו ח״ר.Final note:תענית כ"ט—תי׳ר: משחרב הבית בראשונה נתקבצו כיתות כיתות של פרחי כהונה, ומפתחות ההיכל בידן, ועלו לגג ההיכל ואמרו לפניו: רבש״ע ... יהיו מפתחות מסורות לך, וזרקו□ כלפי מעלה. ויצתה כעין פיסת יד וקיבלתן מהם, וה□ קפצו ונפלו לתוך האורSo: Abe left “keys” t dghtrs, ..... Build yr fams, educate thm as he would have wanted
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"I call heaven and earth to witness before you this day, that I have set before thee, life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life..." (Deuteronomy 30:19) These words, which we shall read in the Torah this week, serve as a most fitting epitaph for this noble gentleman to whom we have come to bid farewell this day. Death came to him in stealth, for he lived and lived fully. He was a person who was full of life, who was involved in life, who loved life, and who rose to the divine challenge to choose life.He was a man who was deeply involved in the dyn-mic processes of life. He was a man to whom others would turn in emergency and in crises, for he had 80 well explored the depths of living that he was eminently capable of quick, sure, and well-grounded solutions to the problems that life presented.He was a man who exploited all that life had to offer. He was more then self-made. He made what life had to offer to him, that not only he, but all those whom he loved and knew, would benefit from it. Thus, by his own Initiative, his Inherent curiosity and his inborn desire to absorb the wonders of living, did he study and educate himself to a degree which attracted the admiration of his peers.Abe Suher, also knew that life has an Author and that Author is the Living God of Israel. And he therefore revered religion,respected the faith of his forbears, and saw in the timeless traditions of our people the spark of eternal life. It was the same devotion to God and to faith that endowed him with the interests in and for the community. There ever there was an opportunity for service, for the betterment of life, and for devotion to his people, Abe Suher would Rive of his finest efforts and beat talents.His love was not a narrow one. It transcended the confines of his own society; for he loved all of life, and especially did he love nature in which the drama of life is played out. *I call heaven and earth to witness before thee״. In heaven and on earth, in this…
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