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One of the hardest things about making aliyah, is hearing news from the old country.\u00a0 There is no one who can really share your emotions and it can feel very isolating.\u00a0 For this I am deeply grateful to the internet which seems to have done the jewish people a huge service in this instance.<\/p>\n

At the end of last week, Husband discovered via Facebook<\/a> that Jenny Morhaim, who I know through various channels and is also a relative via marriage, was taken seriously ill.\u00a0 My reaction was the shock-type one has when you don’t really believe something has happened.\u00a0 No, I said, she’s too young.\u00a0 That couldn’t happen.<\/p>\n

But it did.\u00a0\u00a0And what made\u00a0this particularly\u00a0shocking was that the\u00a0family has already suffered a major trauma.\u00a0 Jenny’s mother passed away, several years ago,\u00a0after suffering from cancer.\u00a0\u00a0 My cousin requested that people should both say tehillim and try to do one extra thing for shabbat in her honour,\u00a0since Jenny was a big fan of shabbat.\u00a0 Feeling helpless from such a distance, (not that I could have done anything had I been back in Hertfordshire) I said the Tehillim and decided my contribution would be to daven kabbalat shabbat.\u00a0 It was very difficult,\u00a0I could barely read the words through my tears.\u00a0 I also woke up several times in shock over\u00a0the weekend, and began\u00a0to wonder,\u00a0if I can barely breathe thinking about her, how on earth are her family coping??<\/p>\n

The community were all in shock that lightening should strike twice to such a lovely family, and through facebook it seems a huge amount\u00a0of effort has taken\u00a0place in her name.\u00a0 Thousands or people took part in saying tehillim and donating<\/a> to a local cause.\u00a0 Watching the funds pour in online and the comments from people all over the world, who knew her, or her family, or were just\u00a0impacted in some way\u00a0by what they had heard and wanted to help, has been awe inspiring.\u00a0 Jenny, 27 year old mother of 3, had touched many people and everyone just prayed for a miracle.<\/p>\n

Despite the community rallying, poor Jenny did not survive, and passed away on Monday evening.\u00a0 Since then not an hour has gone by where she hasn’t popped into my head, and I ended up descending on both\u00a0my neighbours with the children the following day as a desperate effort to stay somewhat composed.\u00a0 Earlier, as I had been going about my mummy routine in a daze, pushing Jojo on the swing, I noticed Jojo slumped somewhat forward and wondered what he was doing.\u00a0 I walked round to see his face and his eyes were closed.\u00a0 He had fallen asleep and I hadn’t even noticed.<\/p>\n

She was buried today, in Har HaMenuchot, next to her mother.\u00a0 I pray that Hashem will take good care of her family.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know\u00a0Jenny so well, and have not seen her in a while, but I can tell you she was a very kind and sensitive person, with a very big heart.\u00a0\u00a0I never knew her as a fellow mother, but I imagine she would have been a natural.\u00a0 I would also describe her as\u00a0a true lady, a trait which has somewhat been adopted by her niece Henya, who bears her aunts features.<\/p>\n

There is an old saying that “The Lord takes the good ones”, and by this I suppose people are saying that Hashem wants only those who He imagines\u00a0will be good company.\u00a0 And Jenny, with her permanently sunny smile, was very good company.<\/p>\n

Baruch Dayan Emet.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/JennyMorhaim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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