"Kinah" for Martyrs of Toulouse, HY"D

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    SilentOne
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    I wrote a “Kinah” for the Toulouse martyrs, HY”D:

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    Our beloved father in Heaven, please do not be silent

    Do not allow the earth to cover the blood of

    Pure innocent sweet school children: Gavriel, Aryeh and Miriam

    Only because they dared to carry Your name in the world

    Leaving behind so deeply traumatized parents, wife, friends and classmates, for whom,

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    If only my head would be water and my eyes a spring of tears, so that I could cry all day and night for the fallen of my people

    I am walking in a trance with nowhere to go

    Sheep led to slaughter, to be killed, destroyed, beaten and humiliated

    And how we live in a terror-filled camp

    We have become so inured to Jewish blood being so cheap

    Ribbono Shel Olam, please ascend Your Throne of Mercy and save us

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    How can it be that when their mothers kissed their children goodbye that morning, that they would never see Gavriel, Aryeh and Miriam again?

    Imagine their grief at candle lighting time on Erev Shabbos when they can no longer beg Hashem

    To merit children who would light up the world in Torah and Maasim Tovim

    Never again able to hear their children say Ma Nishtana at the Seder table

    Or prepare their favorite Shabbos foods and bake them a birthday cake

    Their heartbreak is as vast as the sea, which human being can comfort them?

    Therefore- we must throw ourselves before Your Kisei HaKavod

    To be Metapel with them personally to give them a Nechoma

    Even as it seems so impossible for us to imagine any comfort

    And replace it with the feeling of being enveloped with Your love

    For You Hashem can do anything, even if it seems impossible to us

    And may they know no more Tzuros any more

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    A great Hester Panim seems to have enveloped us

    How can we again have a delicious Shabbos or Yom Tov Seudah with any appetite

    And their tables are so sorely missing the places of their dear ones?

    I feel like my heart has been crushed and its blood squeezed out

    Shemesh, Shemesh how could you have given out your light on that bitter day

    When those Heilege Neshomos was taken from us?

    We have no nerve to lift our heads

    As we trudge through our daily chores without strength

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    Our Father in Heaven, what will be of the children

    Who will never grow to adulthood?

    Whose parents were denied the joy of accompanying their beloved children to the Chuppah?

    I am tortured by the image of young children

    Their terror, in the seconds before and while they were mortally injured

    And in the moments afterward while they drowned in their own blood

    I wish to hit my head against the dirt as these thoughts torment my mind

    And I feel like crumbling down to the ground, with no muscle tone

    My eyes fail with tears, my innards burn, my liver spills on the ground at the ruination of my people

    For this our hearts are ill, for this our eyes are dimmed, for our fallen sweet brothers and sister

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    Sweet Gavriel, Aryeh and Miriam, how sorrowful I am over your departure from this world

    If only you were allowed to remain among the living

    Alas, if only someone would have saved you from that unspeakable tragedy

    How much Nachas your parents and teachers would have derived from your Divrei Torah at your Bar and Bat Mitzvah

    How much pleasure your siblings would have had playing with you and watching you grow up

    But, instead we can only cry, sigh and shed tears over the tragic fate that you met

    And agonize over the Chasunah that we will never have the chance to dance at

    May He soon bring the day of Techiyas HaMeisim when you will be reunited with your beloved families

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    Arise and judge our case against our tormentors

    And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom, their disgrace with which they disgraced You, Hashem

    Certainly the martyred Kinderlach and Rav Yonatan are our staunchest advocates in Heaven

    Please listen to their plea as they ask You to stop all our suffering

    And let their ascension to Gan Eiden spell the end of all Jewish blood being spilled

    Please bring an end to all bloodshed, captivity, evil mishap, every illness and punishment from all members of Your covenant

    Show us very soon, Hashem, our G-d, the consolation of Zion Your city, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem City of Your holiness

    For You are the Master of salvations and Master of consolations

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    wanderingchana
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    Just heartrending. Thank you for putting our shared thoughts and prayers into words.

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    BYbychoice
    Member

    Wow, thanks so much for sharing, I really needed some perspective! After 3 days I went on with life, but it is good to be reminded that not everyones lives go back after something tragic like this! thanks again

    #865449
    Think first
    Member

    Wow! Such feeling in these important words.

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