Something interesting

During Yom Kippur, just before Yizkor at the Chabad of Waterways, in Aventura in South Florida, Rabbi Brusowankin told us something interesting.
He told the story of a Japanese man who mourned the passing of his cousin. The man put a telephone booth on top of a hill near his home. No telephone line was connected to the telephone in the booth. Sometimes the man would pick up the phone and speak to his dead cousin. He felt that he had to tell his cousin things that he regretted not to say to him when the cousin was alive, especially that he loved him and missed him.
After the big tsunami that hit that region in Japan a few years ago, many other people climbed the hill and used that phone (remember without a phone line) to speak to their lost family and friends.

The Rabbi told us to reflect while we pray for passed family during Yizkor, that we tell our living family and friends that we love them, so that we do not have regrets at the end of our lives.

I love my family. They made me a better person.