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And when the soul sings, the spirit soars.\u201d <br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u2013 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks <br \/>\n<br \/>\nSome things in life fall under the category of \u201ctoo beautiful.\u201d A poem, a song, a relationship \u2014 it doesn\u2019t just touch your soul, it sears through it, changing you in the process.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI\u2019ve listened to the song \u201cLove Don\u2019t Fade Away\u201d by Darren Glick hundreds of times. But each time I listen it tears through me in a way I\u2019ve never experienced before. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nI\u2019ve listened to the song \u201cLove Don\u2019t Fade Away\u201d by Darren Glick hundreds of times. But each time I listen it tears through me in a way I\u2019ve never experienced before. Written by Glick in 2019, the song captures both the life and death of Samuel Isaac Farkas, who tragically slipped off a balcony to his death a day before his 16th birthday. Glick and Michael, Samuel\u2019s father, have been close friends since childhood. But Glick\u2019s inspiration came from Sammy\u2019s beautiful soul: wise, empathetic, kind. A young man truly touched by G-d.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDuring shiva, students and teachers from the Hebrew Academy of Miami Beach, where he had been a sophomore, told story after story of Sammy\u2019s remarkable ability to connect \u2014 and understand. \u201cOne young student,\u201d Glick said, \u201cwas entering his first day of the middle school. Sammy found him in the bathroom crying. When asked why he was crying and if he could help, the young kid said, \u2018it\u2019s my first day and I don\u2019t know anyone.\u2019 And he was scared and lonely. Sammy, as was his specialty, gave him a big smile and said, \u2018Well, you\u2019re my friend and now all my friends are your friends.\u2019 They became and remained best friends from that moment on.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnother time Sammy told a friend: \u201cI can tell something is bothering you.\u201d When the friend said he was struggling with his relationship with his father, Sammy told him: \u201cYou have to respect your parents. And once you show the respect, you\u2019ll see the relationship change.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cAnd the stories just continued,\u201d Glick told me, \u201cas if we were being shown this beautiful secret life of a hidden Tzaddik. I witnessed this incredible outpouring of love and giving from Sammy\u2019s friends and acquaintances, and from rabbis, guidance counsellors, and teachers as well as from parents. I witnessed a community that recognized a need to cradle this family in a time of sheer grief and paralysis and make sure their needs were looked after as one of their own. Not just for the seven days of shiva \u2026 but for weeks and in certain situations, months.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe idea of writing a song for Sammy came during shiva. \u201cThe melody came first,\u201d Glick said. \u201cThe feeling was overwhelming. A tune had already formed inside my heart. But I was at a loss for words and a loss for a Hebrew prayer that would reflect these multiple overwhelming feelings of emotion that were rippling through me.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn the first Shabbat during shiva, Glick walked with Sammy\u2019s father to shul in the morning. \u201cI remember being so torn inside every time I heard Sammy\u2019s father say Kaddish. And with tears rolling down my face, I wholeheartedly asked HaShem to help me find the right words, and the right prayer, for Sammy. I turned the page in my Siddur and there was\u2014the Shochen Ad prayer.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn that prayer there is a name that is encoded vertically: Yitzchak \u2014 Sammy\u2019s Hebrew name. A rabbi later showed Glick that there was another name encoded in the prayer vertically: Rivkah \u2014 Sammy\u2019s mother\u2019s name. And then the rabbi explained to Glick the literal interpretation of the prayer as well as its deeper secrets.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile in its literal sense, the Shochen Ad prayer is about the exalting and praising of G-d, it has a far deeper symbolic meaning. The commentary in the Artscroll Siddur states that \u201cthe primary Praise of God comes from the deeds of the Righteous. The \u2018key\u2019 however is not in their rhetoric but in the \u2018song\u2019 of their good deeds.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cYou can do a mitzvah without any emotion and still receive your credit,\u201d Glick explained. \u201cBut the holiest way is by doing that mitzvah in joyous song, with your soul, your very essence. Sammy epitomized this understanding of holiness. I knew I had found the lyrics.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cSammy didn\u2019t ask, he just did,\u201d Glick said. \u201cHe put himself out there for anyone and everyone. With a smile, words, prayer\u2014in any way he could. He lived it.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cWrote it down so I would remember<br \/>\nTook a picture in my mind<br \/>\nOh that smile, I\u2019ll never forget you<br \/>\nMy memory is stuck in rewind.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor the first yarzheit of Sammy\u2019s passing, January 2020, Glick wanted the students at the Hebrew Academy to sing the song for Sammy\u2019s family \u2014 Koolulam-style. \u201cSince it was the students that inspired me to write it,\u201d says Glick, \u201cthis was their song as well, not just mine.\u201d <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe principal was fully supportive of the idea and gave Glick a 45-minute window during finals week to teach the entire student body the song. The following day the school performed it, helping to create the song\u2019s official video.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSammy\u2019s friends and fellow students, on their own, began several personal and communal campaigns in his honor. To be \u201cSammy Strong\u201d and \u201cDo it like Sammy\u201d by adding mitzvot to their daily lives as well as organizing and distributing Shabbat candles on the streets of Miami Beach. \u201cBecause that\u2019s exactly what Sammy would\u2019ve liked his friends and classmates to do. To unite to help and elevate others and thus yourselves. Sammy\u2019s passion combined with his enormous compassion allowed him to truly personify the mitzvah of \u2018Love Thy Neighbor Like Yourself.\u2019\u201d <br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cSnapshot of the moment<br \/>\nI caught you looking at me while I was staring at you<br \/>\nRegrets and Atonement<br \/>\nI believed every word you said was True\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe dove mosaic in the video was created by Sammy and a couple of his fellow students in his art class, a few weeks before he passed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cI wrote the song thinking this may help, in some way, to heal this awful wound, and in fact it has helped me in the years that followed,\u201d says Glick. \u201cAlmost every morning I would start my day by listening to the song, and it would motivate me to put on my Tefillin right away and it would reverberate inside me throughout the day, to the point that I was going to minyan three times a day. In Sammy\u2019s honor.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cJust as a Tzaddik is said to be living even after his death by his deeds and his teachings being passed on. So too Sammy\u2019s legacy will live on by all those he gave a helping hand to. Or listened with compassion to their problems and gave advice to. And all those he helped stay on the derech \u2014 the path.\u201d <br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cYou said Love don\u2019t fade away,<br \/>\nIf you reach out you\u2019ll feel me<br \/>\nSing out, you\u2019ll hear me<br \/>\nI close my eyes, I\u2019ll see you again\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cThe universe is always filled with music,\u201d says Glick. \u201cYou have to be open to it to receive it.\u201d <br \/>\n<br \/>\nSammy\u2019s song has indeed been well received. It became the #1 song on Al Gordon\u2019s Show on WJPR 1640 for several weeks, and received quite a bit of airplay on Nachum Segal\u2019s Jewish Radio Station.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGlick also performed it when he opened for Matisyahu at the Chabad Loft Annual Gala in 2019 in New York City. \u201cA few months after the memorial video was uploaded to Facebook, I received a message from Eric Weinstock. I was Facebook friends with him but had not spoken to or seen him in 45 years \u2026 Eric explained that he thought \u2018Love Don\u2019t Fade Away\u2019 would be perfect for a film he had written and was about to begin filming. I was honored and explained that I would first like to get Sammy\u2019s father\u2019s approval as I consider it Sammy\u2019s song.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n \u201cI always knew that this song had a journey of its own, and I was only a passenger,\u201d says Glick. \u201cIt was truly divinely inspired.\u201d <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe short film that Weinstein created, also titled \u201cLove Don\u2019t Fade Away,\u201d is a story of love and loss and the search for life\u2019s meaning. A man struggles to find peace of mind amidst the crushing pressures of financial insecurity and self-doubt. Feeling he is letting down himself and his wife, the man\u2019s pursuit of life\u2019s true meaning takes an unexpected turn; his serendipitous \u201cdiscovery\u201d challenges him to contemplate what matters most in this life. <br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m prepared to talk to the Angels<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMake them grant me time with the One above<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn my way up I\u2019ll wear me a white robe<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnd ask Him one thing what is Love?\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGlick performed the song at the premiere of the \u201cLove Don\u2019t Fade Away\u201d film in Boston in April. Says Glick: \u201cTrue love never fades away, even after death.\u201d Because of this song, this angelic young man who I never met has inspired me to be a better person. Such is the power of music, stronger than any other art form. The song was divinely inspired to not just touch every soul \u2014 but to change every soul that listens. And, of course, to appreciate each day with our loved ones and to take nothing for granted. \u201cSome people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same,\u201d wrote poet Flavia Weedn. As do some songs.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cYou said Love don\u2019t fade away,<br \/>\nIf you reach out you\u2019ll feel me<br \/>\nSing out, you\u2019ll hear me<br \/>\nI close my eyes I\u2019ll see you again.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nKaren Lehrman Bloch is editor in chief of White Rose Magazine.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/culture\/arts\/music\/361080\/love-dont-fade-away\/","telling_image":false,"telling_name":"","date":"","telling_image_url":"https:\/\/remember-app-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/1705179481728_6405ccb28322f4ac0dfe89e9_03.jpg"},{"text":"Missing Sammy Farkas<br \/>\nThe piercing pain I had in my chest when I heard of the devastating news will forever remind me of how precious life is. From one moment to the next, an entire community can be brought to its knees. How can I be strong during a moment like this? How can I show up to work when our school has a hole that cannot be filled? On Wednesday, the high school cafeteria was standing room only. Hundreds of students, parents, staff, and friends filled the room as we tried to make sense of a tragedy. Every few seconds a different person could be heard breaking down. I decided to do what helps me cope with a bad day, listen to music. I know that music can heal the soul, so I chose some of my favorite Jewish songs, which come from various areas of Torah, and I decided to let the tunes and words begin to do the healing. How can words heal a wounded heart? Perhaps music can help soften a broken heart.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThat afternoon we were notified that the body of Sammy would be brought to a small airport in Fort Lauderdale, and that the community would have their opportunity to say goodbye to Sammy as he made his way to his final resting place, in Jerusalem. When the Chevra Kadisha called me to give me the address and time, they said, \u201cIt\u2019ll be a small gathering, right on the tarmac\u201d, they clearly didn't know what Sammy meant to our community. Hundreds of people showed up. Friends from every Jewish community arrived. The story that I said at that short Eulogy, is a story that will remind me of Sammy forever. I was asked to locate Sammy\u2019s Tefillin and Tallit, and bring it outside of the high school. As I held the bag, I could not believe what was happening. Just yesterday, our sweet Sammy put on his Tefillin, and today I am asked to retrieve it, so it can make its way to Israel for burial. I knew I wouldn't have the opportunity to hug Sammy again, so before I gave over the bag, I hugged the bag so tight, the way I would hug Sammy if I would see him once more. As I handed the bag over, I unzipped it one last time and took a look inside. I saw Sammy\u2019s Tallit with his blue Techelet Tzitziyot. Every morning I would see Sammy wrapped in his Tallit, with those blue Tzitziyot dangling from side to side, as he would sway in his thunderous prayers. If I can select one student to pray on behalf of our IDF soldiers it would be him. To pray to cure cancer, it would be him. To pray on behalf of everything wrong with this world, it would be him. Our sweet Sammy was a prayer that the heavens needed to reckon with.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs I conclude this write up, I would like to mention an explanation Rabbi Jonathan Sacks gives, as to why Moshe Rabbenu hit the rock for water. RJS asks, why would Moshe do that, why wouldn\u2019t he just speak to the rock like Hashem instructed him? He answers beautifully, Moshe was in mourning, and he was not himself. Moshe had just lost his sister Miriam (hence B'nai Israel didn\u2019t have water), and he was grieving. Losing a sibling, or a close friend is beyond painful. Losing a parent, can be justified in ones head, it's the cycle of life. To Moshe, losing his sister, was too close to home, it could have been him! This is what I am seeing with all of our students and Sammy\u2019s two brothers Alex, and Ben. They cannot come to terms with losing such a close relative, because Sammy was like every other 10th grader, it could have been anyone else. It isn\u2019t natural! That shock and that thought, says RJS is what led Moshe to act out, his grieving was too much.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe only way to cope with such a horrible tragedy, is to unite and be strong. It is a numbers game, we need to unite and have many shoulders to cry on, and many open arms. I pray on behalf of the Farkas family, on behalf of our Miami Beach community, on behalf of our Hebrew Academy family, that this will be the last time we encounter such a loss.I am only comforted to know, that we now have a powerhouse representative praying on our behalf up there in Heaven. Sammy, shake things up in the next world. We will continue to pray and create amazing initiatives in your honor and memory. We will do our part, please do your part, because I know, the Sammy that would shake in prayer down here, will not ever be rejected when he prays up there, closer to HaKadosh Baruch Hu!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMay the Neshama of Yitzchak ben Moshe Davidcontinue to rise up, until he has a front row ticket to the Melech Malchei Hamelachim!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMay the mourners of Zion be comforted by Hashem.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.hebrewacademymiami.org\/about\/news\/missing-sammy-farkas-h-rabbi-aharon-assaraf<br \/>\n","telling_image":false,"telling_name":"Rabbi Aharon Assaraf High School Assistant Principal","date":"04\/02\/2019","telling_image_url":"https:\/\/remember-app-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/1705179869994_6405ccb28322f4ac0dfe89e9_04.jpg"}],"gallery_items":[{"start_year":"","end_year":"","albums":[{"name_of_album":"","start_year_of_album":"","end_year_of_album":"","photos":false,"videos":false,"photos_urls":[{"url":"https:\/\/remember-app-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/1705179986423_6405ccb28322f4ac0dfe89e9_02.jpg"}],"videos_urls":false}]}],"places_list":[{"img":false,"name":"NEW YEHUDI BUILDING IN MEMORY OF SAMMY FARKAS","address":"","desc":"","text":"","img_url":"https:\/\/remember-app-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/1705181494976_6405ccb28322f4ac0dfe89e9_55.jpeg"}],"the_grave_images_gallery_urls":false,"the_name_of_a_cemetery":"","the_grave_in_google_maps":{"address":"","lat":0,"lng":0,"city":"","street_number":null,"street_name":"","country":""},"youtubevideos_repeater":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/remember.bio\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/remember_page\/8679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/remember.bio\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/remember_page"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/remember.bio\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/remmember_page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remember.bio\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/remember.bio\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/remember.bio\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}