Bruno
Hussar
To my friends in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam I
would like to say the following things:
I am happy to live permanently among you.
I believe death is not the end of life, but a kind of metamorphosis. This means a complete
change of life, passing from a known to an unknown phase. I believe that in some
mysterious way I will continue to be connected to you.
If I have hurt any one of you, out of disregard
or any other reason, I sincerely ask for your pardon.
Here in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, we have one
aim: peaceful reconciliation between our two peoples. In order to work fruitfully towards
this aim, we need to have mutual understanding and consideration of each other here in the
village. This means LOVE.
I would really like us to do things together as
an act of love, reconciliation and peace between all the members of Neve Shalom/Wahat
al-Salam.
I ask that you will not forget that the
foundation of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam started thanks to a group of very dedicated
friends, among them Rina, Yosef Emanuel, Mike Levy and others. And I particularly ask that
you do not forget that Anne was the person who worked with me during all these pioneering
years. Without her Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam would not have existed today.
My thanks to all the wonderful members who came
and are still coming to live and work here, for their sharing in building this village and
community.
I would like very much that you will organize
this funeral so that it will really be an act of reconciliation, love and peace among all
the friends, in an atmosphere of joy. Yes, joy, because I am staying in your midst, though
in another form.
My brothers, start your prayers in Jerusalem, in Isaiah's
House.
Now I want my fellows and friends, over and
above all partitions of religions, opinions and philosophies, to be united in love and
faith. Faith in the ultimate victory of love over hate ? this is the real and deepest aim
of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam.
A righteous man once said: ?In a place where
there is no love, sow love and you shall reap love?. It may happen that the one who had
sown love will not reap the love himself, only the person coming after him. But, no doubt,
every seed of true love will give - today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow - the fruit
of love. This is the real aim of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam ? to keep the hope alive and
to sow a lot of love seeds in this dry earth of our land. The fruit will come in its time,
on the day of harvest.
