Origin of the Project
Ira Antelis has been a gifted composer and music producer for more than 40 years. His compositions have touched the lives of millions of people. He understands that music has the power to heal, comfort, and restore. Moved by this unprecedented and insidious pandemic that has taken so many lives from us, this project aptly named “We Have Loved,” has emerged.
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For example, one such poems reads:
Merciful God, God Most High,
May You remember all those Who died of COVID-19,
Of old age and known preconditions,
And those who died Entirely surprised
By the terrible fragility Of our human bodies.
With love we repeat the words
Of an old Yizkor book:
“I had a dream. I returned to the town of my childhood.
Everyone there was still alive!”
Dreamers we are,
Of a world in which You are still alive,
Living among us, going about the life
We once knew as normal.
May your memory be a blessing
And a reminder,
To shelter those who are fragile,
Even in times of fear.
-Rabbi Sonja K. Pilz | Prayer for Those Who Have Died of COVID-19
This website is very moving, thank you.