10/07/2026
We Remember this Wednesday and Always...
Approximately 1,200 lives taken and 251 hostages three years ago. Thousands of lives traumatized and still searching for hope three years later. Let us never forget.
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"A List of Names"
By: Rabbi Josh Gray
I read a list of names with their obituaries attached.
Instantly afraid.
A list of names can become a list of names.
The obituaries grip to them with white knuckles; clinging to life.
Do they lose hold only three years later?
Falling and fading into a list of names.
What is remembering?
We can utter names from our lips.
Can we hold obituaries in a deeper place?
Are we all names on a list?
Inscribed for good or not for good?
I hope God holds us in a deeper place.
Avi Sasi was 65 years old.
October 7th, 2023.
He was killed at Nova.
He was shielding his daughter and niece from a gr***de.
He also lived in California. Ran a stone company. Managed kosher restaurants. Built homes.
He said, βYou live every day. You die once.β
He leaves behind his wife Eti, his daughters, Danielle, Natalie, and Morin. Three Grandchildren.
At least we did a bit more than name him.
We attached an obituary.
We kept it from losing hold.
Blood, the stuff of life, rushes back to white knuckles; at least for a moment.
Keep reading names with their obituaries attached.
Reattach the obituaries whose grips become fatigued.
Remembering is relentless responsibility.
A list of names can become a list of names.
