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To Sheldon Adelson's Death: "Chosen In Life" | Israel today

2021-02-14T21:40:17.600Z


| In the country Dr. Miriam Adelson, the late Sheldon's widow, praised him: "He knew how to fulfill himself" • "We would read each other and each other without speaking" • "The memory will also fill with joy" The tomb of the late Sheldon Adelson Photo:  Oren Ben Hakon A month has passed - yes, thirty days. A whole month since our beloved Sheldon - husband, father, grandfather, brother and soulmate - was laid


Dr. Miriam Adelson, the late Sheldon's widow, praised him: "He knew how to fulfill himself" • "We would read each other and each other without speaking" • "The memory will also fill with joy"

  • The tomb of the late Sheldon Adelson

    Photo: 

    Oren Ben Hakon

A month has passed - yes, thirty days.

A whole month since our beloved Sheldon - husband, father, grandfather, brother and soulmate - was laid to rest.

A month ago we wept beside him on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and today we - the family - are forced to mourn and honor his memory from afar.

A month ago we were in the heart of winter, and today we see here and there buds of spring.

A month ago my children had a father present, and today they stand to say Kaddish and take on the yoke of orphanhood from which there is no way back.

That's how life is.

That's how it is death.

And so they flow and follow one another like the seasons: intertwined, inseparable, forever.

But life and death are not equal - certainly not.

In memory of Sheldon Adelson

In the book of Deuteronomy it is written: "I have testified to you today the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I have given before you, the blessing and the curse; and you have chosen."

To live life - to live right, with dignity and self-fulfillment - is a choice.

And Sheldon knew this best of all.

In his 87 years he has managed to do, fulfill and experience so many things, enough for several periods of life of ordinary people.

It is not for nothing that we used to call him "the rabbit of an energizer".

And this is what makes his death so painful: the space he left behind is vast.

The air feels sparse without it, the colors are pale and the daylight is cold.

I can fill my home with company, conversations and music, but without hearing his voice calling my name - "Miri ...!"

- I feel like a wanderer in the desert of silence.

Imagine the shock I felt last week when I had to fill out personal forms and realized I had to tick the "widow" box, with my natural instinct being to tick the "married" box as I did for the past three decades.

But I know I will always feel married to Sheldon, the man who became a part of me.

Our love was so whole and close.

We both thought and felt the same things, in full coordination.

I could read his thoughts, and he's mine.

I would often complete the sentences that started because we communicated without words.

And we still do - when he appears in my dreams night after night, or when I hear songs we love and close my eyes and feel his imminent presence.

That is why I know - that is why we all know - and beyond any doubt, that Sheldon would like us to be chosen in life just as he did.

And despite the great confusion and pain, so do we: chosen in life.

We will prosper, we will continue to raise the young, we will rise and we will succeed.

And yes, when the time comes, we will also laugh again and celebrate life.

Because that's what Sheldon would have expected of us.

May his memory be blessed - a memory that fills us with sadness now, but will eventually fill us with joy as well.

This is my prayer.

That's what I promised.

Source: israelhayom

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