“I must explain why all of us girls insisted on being here today”
IT was early morning when Dovid Greenstein informed me that his 91-year-old mother, Chaya, had passed away. (All names have been changed.) He asked if I was available to deliver a hesped at the levayah. I agreed and instructed my secretary to cancel my appointments for the day.
As I had never met Dovid’s mother, I asked him for some details of her life. Dovid replied that his mother had been in the nursing home section of her assisted living facility for the last 19 years.
When I asked about her special qualities, Dovid said, “She was very attached to the other residents of the facility, and she went to shul there every Shabbos. But I doubt there will be many people at the levayah. After all, my mother was a resident of the facility for almost twenty years. I can’t imagine there being more than a handful of people at the funeral.”
I nodded, and both Dovid and I agreed that the levayah would be short.
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