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Remember Rosa
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koneh olam habah beshah achat
Washington
— "a person can acquire the
t the Memorial service
world
to come in one moment."
for Rosa Parks held in
Rosa
Parks
exemplifies this
Washington, one of the
teaching.
We
should be aware
first speakers invoked the litur-
that
even
single
actions of dig-
gy of the Jewish people. He
nity
can
change
the
world.
recited a prayer in Hebrew, then
One
great
aspect
of
her action
commented that Rosa Parks did
was
that
its
appeal
was
univer-
for her people what the Exodus
sal:
We
all
have
the right
from Egypt did for the
to
sit
in
the
House
of
Jews: She led her people
the
Lord.
More
than
from slavery to free-
that, she taught us that
dom.
we
are all able to bring
This eulogy was
about
God's teaching.
delivered immediately
This
was
perhaps the
following the recitation
greatest
aspect
of her
of Psalm 27, the first
action.
It
was
inspira-
psalm recited at Rosa
Rabbi Samue
tional. We can all, no
Parks' memorial.
Herzfeld
matter how insignifi-
Why did the memori-
Special
cant we think we are;
al organizers choose to
Commentary
change the world. A
recite Psalm 27?
seamstress in Alabama
Perhaps because of the
can
change
the world, and so
following verse: "I had but one
can
you
—
and so can I.
request of God, which I seek, to
In
teaching
us this, she
sit in the House of God for all
changed
the
face
of America
the days of my life."
forever.
Her
actions
transcended
Like the psalmist, Sister Rosa,
the
civil
rights
movement.
too, desired to sit. But it is big
Through her passive resistance,
mistake to think that all she
she taught us all that real power
wanted to do was to sit on a
lies
not with armies and guns,
Montgomery, Ala., bus on Dec.
but
with
integrity and God.
1, 1955. What she really wanted
Even
the
most entrenched rul-
to do was to sit in equality in all
ing
power
in the world cannot
walks of life. What she really
defeat
the
heart
of a committed
wanted was for all of us to be
human
being.
Human
dignity
able to sit in the House of God.
and
equality
will
triumph.
Rosa Parks showed the world
Through her actions, she gave
that the House of God is any-
courage
to so many others, in
where that human beings
both
the
private and public
behave with dignity, courage
sphere,
who
were able to stand
and recognition of the Divine
up
for
their
beliefs.
How fitting
Image in each other.
that
she
became
the
first women
Those of us who were born
to
lie
in
the
Capitol
Rotunda!
after the civil rights movement
I now understand why the
achieved its greatest successes
memorial
organizers placed a
have a difficult time under-
Jewish
prayer
at the very begin-
standing what Rosa Parks
ning
of
the
service.
By not get-
accomplished. Racism surely
ting up on that bus, Sister Rosa
existed all around us, but it was
taught us that we all have a seat
removed from the institutional
in the House of the Lord — Jew,
life of cities across America.
Muslim and Christian.
This was due to Rosa Parks. In
May we truly listen to her
this respect, her revolution was
message! 0
so powerful that many of us
have a hard time understanding Rabbi Shmuel Hertzfeld is rabbi
its greatness.
of Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah-The
Her greatness became even
National Synagogue, the oldest
clearer to me as I watched the
Orthodox synagogue in Washing-
reactions of people most lifted
ton, D.C. Distributed through
Edah, a modern Orthodox advoca-
by her bravery.
cy group (www.edah.org).
The rabbis teach us, Adam

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