M ourning — pure unadulterated mourning — doesn’t come easy in this industry.
People took his songs seriously because they took themselves seriously,
M ourning — pure unadulterated mourning — doesn’t come easy in this industry.
Always when hearing sad news of a petirah of a great man part of the brain starts racing. What day of the week is it when are we printing do we have space in the magazine.
Everything depends on mazel Chazal teach us. Sometimes a petirah is marked with an expansive article and other times equally great people slip away unnoticed. Perhaps they leave us on Erev Yom Tov or maybe there’s another sort of breaking news that eclipses them that week.
It is entirely possible that they are the ones with the mazel — I’m making no assumptions about what’s ultimately a favor for the neshamah — but it’s fair to say that respectful coverage down in this world indicates a certain admiration for the departed.
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