Rabbi Menachem Creditor
I cry whenever I hear Paul McCartney sing "Yesterday."
He sang it simply during the Concert for New York, and that's where I am when I hear his voice. It doesn't matter that it's almost nine years later, that I'm across the continent from NYC, that the song wasn't written for 9/11 – none of that matters. The "Yesterday" he sang about that night is the one I long for today. In listening to his voice, "today" disappeared into a hard "yesterday." In his singing, in his indescribable music-ritual reinvoking of painful memory, the inexorable process of time was violated, trumped by the immediacy of enduring loss.
One day there will be no sadness.
I believe that.
It feels forever away, but I believe with all my heart that it will be.
It must.
And on that day "Yesterday" will be today again.
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Rabbi Menachem Creditor
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