{"id":1038,"date":"2021-04-08T22:13:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2021-04-08T22:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T02:15:04","slug":"yom-hashoah-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/2021\/04\/08\/yom-hashoah-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Yom Hashoah 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words, on the occasion of the BU Hillel and Elie Wiesel Center candle lighting ceremony, April 8, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

I light this candle<\/p>\n

to remind us that<\/p>\n

it is not enough<\/p>\n

to say, Never Again!<\/p>\n

If we don’t know<\/p>\n

what it is we are<\/p>\n

supposed to remember.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How can we remember<\/p>\n

what we never experienced?<\/p>\n

But we never experienced<\/p>\n

Sinai, or<\/p>\n

the House of Bondage, and yet<\/p>\n

we remember<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I forget Thee Jerusalem<\/p>\n

But how can I remember<\/p>\n

What I have not seen?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is these kinds of<\/p>\n

impossible commandments<\/p>\n

we resolve to keep<\/p>\n

today<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They are not too far from<\/p>\n

our mouths, they say.<\/p>\n

But our words fail<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not because of the silence<\/p>\n

of forgetting<\/p>\n

but because there are too many of them.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Too many names to recall<\/p>\n

Too many lost<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

How can they say<\/p>\n

there is a God when<\/p>\n

even God forgot<\/p>\n

to remember?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

I light a candle<\/p>\n

to the God<\/p>\n

who<\/p>\n

forgot to write<\/p>\n

their\u00a0names<\/p>\n

in the book<\/p>\n

of life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Words, on the occasion of the BU Hillel and Elie Wiesel Center candle lighting ceremony, April 8, 2021 I light this candle to remind us that it is not enough to say, Never Again! If we don’t know what it is we are supposed to remember. How can we remember what we never experienced? But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/mzank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}