| Comfort and Consolation Booklet |
Death is an overwhelming tragedy. It is so different from other calamities of life. . It seems so hopeless, so very final, the end of everything. The loved one is gone beyond recall, beyond our help, beyond our reach. The tender ties of a whole lifetime are abruptly broken. The family unit, so tightly knit, is rudely shattered. |
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History recalls the rise and fall of nations and empires as the tides that ebb and flow. In this ceaseless cycle variations have occurred only in the manner of appearance and disappearance one lone nation arises above history to lift its head from the depths of ages past to live again. It is Israel. |