Date: 2009-02-03 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] llennhoff.livejournal.com
In Jewish thought attending a funeral is called "chessed shel emet" - true righteousness/kindness = because it is the one favor you know is never going to be personally reciprocated.

When my sister died untimely young, the switchboard at the school where my mother taught was deluged with phone calls from substitute and retired teachers, all volunteering to work at the school so my mother's fellow teachers could attend the funeral. I'm tearing up right now thinking of how sophisticated their generosity was.

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