Updated: The best website to send your donations to benefit Noah Pozner‘s family is http://noahpozner.org
1. If you would like to send a card, letter, expression of love, to Noah’s family in CT – please send them here:
Noah’s Ark of Hope Fund
261 S. Main St. #332
Newtown, CT 06470
If you would like to send something to Victoria, please contact me via the button on the left side of the page.
2. Monetary donations for Noah Pozner’s family.
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake. Amen. – Episcopal Online Book of Common Prayer, Compline
Noah’s family is Jewish – This is a prayer shared by Katie -
There’s a prayer that is said every week called the Kaddish, or the Mourner’s Kaddish. It doesn’t specifically mention the dead but that’s it’s purpose, we say it to honor the dead. It is as follows, in the phonetic Hebrew, then in English.
Yit-gadal v’yit-kadash sh’may raba b’alma dee-v’ra che-ru-tay, ve’yam-lich mal-chutay b’chai-yay-chon uv’yo-may-chon uv-cha-yay d’chol beit Yisrael, ba-agala u’vitze-man ka-riv, ve’imru amen.
Y’hay sh’may raba me’varach le-alam uleh-almay alma-ya.Yit-barach v’yish-tabach, v’yit-pa-ar v’yit-romam v’yit-nasay, v’yit-hadar v’yit-aleh v’yit-halal sh’may d’koo-d’shah, b’rich hoo. layla (ool-ayla)* meen kol beer-chata v’she-rata, toosh-b’chata v’nay-ch’mata, da-a meran b’alma, ve’imru amen.
Y’hay sh’lama raba meen sh’maya v’cha-yim aleynu v’al kol Yisrael, ve’imru amen.
O’seh shalom beem-romav, hoo ya’ah-seh shalom aleynu v’al kol Yisrael, ve’imru amen.
*Say on Shabbat
English
Magnified and sanctified be G-d’s great name in the world which He created according to His will. May he establish His kingdom during our lifetime and during the lifetime of Israel. Let us say, Amen.
May G-d’s great name be blessed forever and ever.Blessed, glorified, honored and extolled, adored and acclaimed be the name of the Holy One, though G-d is beyond all praises and songs of adoration which can be uttered. Let us say, Amen.
May there be peace and life for all of us and for all Israel. Let us say, Amen.
Let He who makes peace in the heavens, grant peace to all of us and to all Israel. Let us say, Amen.
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There are also words for mourners, things that you would say TO those who lost a child, rather than a general prayer of mourning, if that makes sense. It is:
Ha’makom yenahem etkhem betokh she’ar avelei Tziyonvi’Yerushalayim)
May God console you among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem
From Ali Martell:
Translation of “E-l Malei Rachamim”
O G-d, full of mercy, Who dwells on high,
grant proper rest on the wings of the Divine Presence -in the lofty levels of the holy and the pure ones,
who shine like the glow of the firmament -for the soul of Noah
who has gone on to his world,
because, without making a vow,
I will contribute to charity in remembrance of his soul.May his resting place be in the Garden of Eden -
therefore may the Master of Mercy
shelter him in the shelter of His wings for Eternity,
and may He bind his soul in the Bond of Life.Hashem is his heritage,
and may he repose in peace on his resting place.Now let us respond: Amen.
Thank you for the info and these prayers and readings.
Thank you for providing a tangible way people can reach out to help at least a couple of these families. May God reach the rest of those who were affected through the loving hands, feet, & hearts of others surrounding them. The prayers and well wishes of everyone are surely flowing their way. Not the same as holding your baby, but may it somehow comfort them.
Thank you for posting this. I have been wanting to know so badly how to help. I have been wondering what I would want if I had been a parent in this situation, but how do I imagine the impossible in order to put myself in their shoes? So it helps to know there are good people like yourselves who can help those of us who want to help but feel helpless to know helpful actions to take. When events like this happen it is easy for me to question my belief in God – but through people like you, I certainly don’t question the existence of angels.
[...] More information can be found HERE and HERE. [...]
Thank you so much for these tangible and spiritual ways to help. It is just so sad. The families of the victims should be comforted.
I sent Mr Lady some poems I pulled from my daughter’s collection. Let me know if you need me to send them elsewhere.
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Thanks so much for rallying your community in this trying time and incredibly painful circumstances. This is truly the utmost act of kindness. I am very very sorry for the loss of so many lives, and touched that we are all looking for ways to comfort the families affected.
In our Jewish tradition, we visit the mourners right after the funeral (Noah is buried today, Monday Dec 17), and we keep silent until they start speaking to us, because there is no word of comfort at that horrible moment. We let the family remember their loved one, and we listen to them. If they say nothing, we are not supposed to start the conversation.
Evil has visited these lives, it is upon us to multiply the acts of kindness to replace with good what has been lost. Noah’s life has been cut short, and his light is now our responsibility to carry on into the world. My own son’s liturgical name is Noah (Noah Posner’s Hebrew name is Shamule).
Anyone who wants to help should increase their commitments to a good life in memory of sweet Noah, who would have been able to bring so much to the world. We have to do it instead of him, and teach our children to do good to re-balance the quantity of light and goodness in this world.
Your post and your appeal is wonderful and in line with the Jewish tradition of repairing the broken world. May you be thanked and blessed for doing this.
May the Omnipresent console Noah’s family and friends and all the mourners of the earth.
[...] my heart could not be shattered more than it was, I found out that a fellow social media mom, VDog, lost her nephew, Noah Pozner, Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary. I did the only thing I knew [...]
Thank you. I needed help finding the words. Hugs to everyone.
[...] useful and constructive, preferably with my children. I want to do something to help, even after donating here and here, even if I can’t necessary help those families with my own bare hands. Friends here [...]