A Eulogy For Yemima Another terror victim has died. Yemima Mosquera. She has a remarkable story. This poem is offered up in her memory. She was the second one murdered succumbed to her wounds four days after the terrorist hit her at the train- stop early Wednesday evening. Probably when you were serving dinner and this was already four days later - so maybe you didnt hear about her... * And Im not blaming you if you didnt weep yet over this second death. I too know about the drawer in the far cabinet where you stuff your mental notes of pieces of news that prove that the world is truly awful senseless and brutal. I have my own discreet file of facts that I keep stacked just out of sight when I am stirring the soup for the children to eat so that I do not poison the broth with my intensity. * And yet, it is good to break open to break over - these things to sift through the notes in the drawer to study the truths of the world carefully stored away * And let it be known - if you dont already know - that on one of those notes G-d wrote: Yemima Mosquera the daughter of Avraham. The convert from Ecuador. Another soul left the world. Another sheet in the dirt. Another note in the drawer. May her memory be a blessing. May her name be mourned. A few remarkable facts about Yemima (obm): - At age 16, this young Ecuadorian woman contacted a Rabbi via the internet with a desire to convert. - While she was not officially Jewish, her mother lit candles, following a family tradition that her grandmother & great-grandmother had also done. - Her family name is one known to be used by those who were forced to convert but still retained vestiges of Jewish practice. - One of the moments she knew that Judaism was her path was when she was praying the Silent Prayer and an earthquake hit in Ecuador. Her entire family rushed to hide under the tables. But she was so engrossed in her prayer that she did not notice the earthquake. - She came to Israel 2 years ago to study daily - relentlessly - for conversion. - She received her conversion certification only a few short months ago.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:10:47 +0000