Annual commemoration for Odette and Moussa Abadi

September 10, 2013

September 10 (a date midway between Moussa’s death and Odette’s) – and, by a quirk of the calendar this year, we were between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Believers and non-believers, we met for the second year in Montparnasse cemetery, past the tenth tree on the right, around the Abadis’ grave. There were about fifteen of us – but more, counting those who could not come but who, we are certain, were with us in their thoughts.

Daniel Farhi, as is his custom, in a “liberal” way, embraced the whole gathering without any religious spirit, but with words guided by the memories all of us have of Odette and Moussa.

After the El Malei Rachamim, Daniel Farhi read us a very beautiful text on commemorating remembrance.

Victor Haïm chose to read us an extract from Odette’s book on “the selection”.

Afterwards we all met at “Papa’s” opposite for a snack, happy to be together.

Meditation on Remembrance

This ceremony is an occasion to meditate on remembrance. We would like to share this text composed by Chief Rabbi Louis-Germain Lévy of the Union libérale israélite (reproduced in the original French).