Dear Tammy,

In this photo that I took just a couple of months ago, near your bed in the recovery room, I did not imagine that I’ll have to part from you, certainly not this way.

We’ve known one another for about ten years, a little bit after you came to live in Israel. The connection between us was instant, deep, astonishing.

But this does not surprise me in your case, as everyone who knew you, the contact with him became like this. As all along the years, also during the past months when so many came to visit you.We spoke about daily difficulties & we also, as usual, delved deeper into our souls. We spoke about things of high value, from simple to deep.

Sometimes you raised the question to me, what? could it be it? Is that how it will end?

That this raised the question to me, what could it be that this is it? This is how it ends? It scared you & you quickly came back to yourself & stated, in a confident voice & unequivocal, unambiguous that this is only a lesson you must learn, you will do what needs to be done & it will pass. Because you understood that if this is your lesson, then “what is the problem”? we learn & move on. And indeed, you learned that you’re surrounded by people who love you from the depth of their hearts. You learned that you can ask.

If you could only see how many people came to follow you on your last path, if only you heard the good words they told about you. You managed to make even me believe that it is o-to-to passing, only a matter of physical strength & belief trust in getting well & this one will be another lesson in life. We spoke a lot about teaching, education, school, students, educational system, values, and human soul. How you touch the hearts of your students, how you see their souls & know how to reach them; how you see them in “eyes-height”, how you are an example for others. In certain ways I assume that you are also, a little, my teacher. May be to all people who happened to know you. Because you were a little Cohen, a little Levy, a little Angel & a little prophet & a little one of many. While you are not religious, you are a great believer. Several years ago you brought up the possibility that you’ll learn programming, since everything you want to know you learn.& indeed, this is what happened. You asked that I teach you & beyond learning another tool, you widened your horizons. This is what you did with Yoga, with theater, with video editing , graphics, teaching – with every & anything you wanted. There is nothing that stood against your will.

Every time you tell me that you told someone about me, you say to me that you told them that Tom is wise, because he knows so many things. But I always wanted to tell you that you are wise. You are even very wise. You always have a way to reflect reality & to think in the most precise way I have ever encountered.

I learned a lot from you about the world & about myself. Thank you for it.

You have collected in your life very many soul friends, people that you touched deep in their hearts, because you were you, completely authentic, most authentic I’ve known.

I am too small to be able to understand why you left so young, but if there is a God, s/he probably needs you in the highest levels.

I am sorry if I disappointed you with something & if I was not there when you needed me.

I want you to know that I love you with all my heart & I will always keep our connection in my heart safe & guarded.  

      

Rest in Peace.     

Tom Lev