יום הזיכרון לש

יום הזיכרון לש

Today in Israel is Yom HaZikaron LaShoa VeLagvura, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.

According to Wikipedia :

At 10:00am on Yom HaShoah, air-raid sirens sound for two minutes throughout Israel. Public transport (including virtually all highway vehicles) comes to a standstill for this period, and people stop and stand silent. During Yom HaShoah, much public entertainment and many public establishments in Israel are closed by law. Israeli television and radio channels transmit mourning songs and documentaries about the Holocaust, and no commercials. All flags on public buildings are flown at half mast.

"Ani Maamin" is a common prayer sung in remembrance. Here's a bit of it:

Ani maamin beemuna shlemah

B'viat hamashiach

V'af al pi sheyitmameha

Im kol zeh achake lo

B'chol yom sheyavo

(I believe with a complete belief

In the coming of the Messiah

And even though he may tarry

I will wait for him, whenever he comes)

And because everything can be brought back to Latin:

Sunt lacrimae rērum et mentem mortālia tangunt
"There, tears for the mortal way of the world brush our minds." (Aeneid I, 462)