“I’m having trouble with the past tense,” Rabbi Uri Herscher said as he began his eulogy for his close friend Rabbi Harold Schulweis, who died last week at the age of 89. With about 1,500 mourners looking on in the main sanctuary of Valley Beth Shalom (VBS), the synagogue Schulweis led for 44 years, Herscher’s words tried to capture the singular pain of human loss, that pain we feel when someone we love enters the “past tense.”
The memorial itself was a poignant dance between the past and the future, between the greatness of one man’s life and the yearning to honor that greatness in the future.
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