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daily kaddish: for amy winehouse

Posted on 24 July 201125 July 2011 by mira

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Today’s Kaddish is for Amy Winehouse, whom I’d never heard of before a friend sent a message asking me to recite a kaddish for her.  So I Googled her.  She bore an uncanny resemblance to my daughter (except for all the eye makeup and well, quite a lot else. And she was the same age as my daughter. A nice Jewish girl, talented and smart, down the drain. What a terrible terrible loss.  I watched her perform a few of her songs from her second album.  All that potential down the drain. And ‘down the drain’ is such a stupid reductionist thing to say, but that’s how it’s coming out right now.   I still don’t really know anything about Amy Winehouse, but — חבל מעד  — what a shame. — Mira

3 thoughts on “daily kaddish: for amy winehouse”

  1. mira says:
    25 July 2011 at 23:13

    Strange that this kaddish, of all our kaddishim, does not have a shred of music to it. I’m not sure what to think about that, but for some reason, it makes me sad.

    Reply
    1. erin says:
      25 July 2011 at 23:25

      It seems fitting to me: when the musician dies, the music is gone.

      But here you go: http://beitmalkhut.org/?p=3695

      Reply
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