THE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH

I’m attending a memorial service for a friend’s dad. She asked everyone to read something. My friend is religious; I’m not. I can’t find anything to read that speaks to me or write anything that isn’t shallow and trite. Please help me with this. RABBI RAMI: Consider the following as a prompt to be personalized: “As long as we have bodies, we have egos and imagine ourselves to be separate from one another, from nature, and from the Greater Wholeness some of us call God. However necessary this sense of separation may be, as sages from Buddha to Einstein reveal, it is fundamentally illusory. Your dad no longer suffers from this illusion, but we do, and because we do, we grieve his death. May your tears of grief cleanse your…

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