Zeh hayom asah Adonai, nagilah v'nismecha vo". "This is the day that God has made, let us celebrate and rejoice in it My Mother’s English name was Beulah. On multiple levels, this puts her on the “B” list for baby naming opportunities. But everybody called her “Billie”. Her Hebrew name was “Bracha”, which, in Hebrew, means “blessing”. Like her granddaughter and grandson-in-law, my mother loved music. We had a piano in our living room and she used to delight in playing and singing. She performed the lead role in a number of Jewish Center of Bayside Oaks musical performances. If you like, I can sing you a couple of stanzas. When we were children, she would play a movement from Mozart’s Piano Sonata #11 – and we would whirl and dance across the living room like dervishes, then collapse on the floor. She would wait a couple of seconds and then start again. Alya and Nomi are probably thinking that this explains a lot. Like Nomi and Keith, my mother loved chi