Funeral praise

A funeral praise , or eulogy , is a Oraison or generally public speech made with the memory of a missing person, generally at the time of its burial or its ceremony of commemoration.

Eulogie is not to confuse with

  • reduced , which is a Poème writes in memory of the late one.
  • Obituary (articles In memoriam ) which is a Biographie published post-mortem, and is often used as announcement of death.
  • Funeral , which refers to the ritual surrounding the funeral.

Among the famous funeral praises, let us note:

The funeral praise in the Judaism

The Judaïsme sees in the funeral praise a religious obligation, whatever the merit of the late one. It is justified of it by the succession of the headings of the weekly sections at the end of Lévitique ( Aharei Mot , Kedoshim , Emor , which one can read like a sentence: “after death, you will say holy words”) The Wise ones also insist on the importance to rent the large men in acts or scholarship.

According to the Jewish Law, one will not pronounce a praise for a person having expressly refused it, nor if its burial falls a Shabbat or at the time of a festival, or at the time of the month of Nissan.

Funeral orations in the Hebraic Bible

The funeral praise (Héb. Hesped ) is a tradition already known in the Bible, since Abraham, with died of Sarah, " came to speak funeral in praise of Sarah and the pleurer" (Gen. 23:12; translated by " came to carry out mourning on Sara and for the pleurer" in the version Louis Segond 1910).

In the same way, when Jacob dies (Gen. 50:10 - 11), " they made hear the large ones and deep speeches ( translated " lamentations" ); and Joseph made in the honor of his father a seven days mourning. The inhabitants of the country, Cananéens, were pilot of this mourning in the surface of Athad, and they said: Here is a deep mourning among the Egyptians! This is why one gave the name of Abel Mitsraïm to this surface which is beyond Jourdain."

The King David gave his noble letters to the funerary speech, while turning it in a poetic way ( Kinna )
Sa kinna most known is that which it did with the advertisement death of the King Saül and of his/her son Yehonatan (2 Samuel 1:19 - 27):

the 1.19 elite of Israel succumbed on your hills! How from the heroes they fell?
1.20 do not announce it in Gath, do not publish of it the news in the streets of Askalon, For fear the girls of the Philistines are not delighted, For fear the girls of the incirconcis do not triumph.
1.21 Mountains of Guilboa! That there is on you neither dew neither rain, Nor fields which give first steps for the offerings! Because there the shields of the heroes were thrown, the shield of Saül; Oil ceased of the oindre.
1.22 In front of the blood of the casualties, in front of the grease of most valiant, the arc of forever moved back Jonathan, And the sword of Saül did not turn over in neutral.
1.23 Saül and Jonathan, pleasant and darlings during their life, was not separate in their death; They were lighter than the eagles, They were stronger than the lions.
1.24 Girls of Israel! cry over Saül, Which covered the crimson one magnificiently to you, Which put gold ornaments on your clothes.
1.25 Comment of the heroes they fell in the middle of the combat? How Jonathan did he succumb on your hills?
1.26 I am in the pain because of you, Jonathan, my brother! You gave all my pleasure; Your love for me was admirable, Above the love of the women.
1.27 Comment of the heroes they fell? How their weapons were lost?

This hesped is recited in Israel at the time of Yom Hazikaron, in memory of the dead soldiers.

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