Ida Gelbart
Ruth Yaffee
Harry Yaffee
Mike Jackman
| VIDUI (Final Confession)
Interpreted by Rabbi Rami Shapiro
I acknowledge before the Source of all, that life and death are not in my hands.
Just as I did not choose to be born, so I do not choose to die.
May it come to pass that I may be healed but if death is my fate, then I accept it with dignity and the loving calm of one who knows the way of all things.
May my death be honorable, and may my life be a healing memory for those who know me.
May my loved ones think well of me and may my memory bring them joy.
From all those I may have hurt, I ask forgiveness.
Upon all who have hurt me, I bestow forgiveness.
As a wave returns to the ocean, so I return to the Source from which I came.
Shema Yisrael, Adonai, Elohaynu, Adonai echad
Hear O Israel, that which we call God is Oneness itself.
Blessed is the Way of God
the Way of Life and Death,
of coming and going,
of meeting and loving,
now and forever.
As I was blessed with the one,
so now am I blessed with the other.
Shalom. Shalom. Shalom. |
