Idelle P. Horan

May 4th, 2014

Idelle was fearful for herself and the lives of her family members who experienced the violence of anti-Semitism while seeking the promise of the American dream. She religiously prayed for our welfare.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

May 1st, 2014

Idelle, Ted, and Sherman struggled with the violent death of a niece and cousin after her birthing of a child to a father of a another race who loved only his weapons.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

April 29th, 2014

Idelle and Ted were saddened to learn of the suicides of the young adult son of the Savir family in Israel and the young wife in the Chapman family in Illinois. Both young persons chose death because life did not meet their expectations.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

April 29th, 2014

Idelle and Ted cherished the memory of their son, Dr. Sherman Horan, and relived their grief when the Israeli ulpan where they had peacefully studied received an Arab attack.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

April 23rd, 2014

Idelle and her husband Ted visited relatives in Israel during a decade as an annual ritual. They studied Hebrew with visitors and soldiers at an ulpan. They felt fulfillment.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

April 22nd, 2014

Idelle Poll Horan found inspiration and peace from the Torah like your grandfather and father before her. She wanted to acquire the knowledge of the rabbinate.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

April 16th, 2014

Idelle expressed herself in Yiddish as this was her first language and English was her second language. Regarding the soul, perhaps we should defer to the Yiddish proverb, Der guf iz a shvom, di neshomeh a tehom. The translation is the body is a sponge, the soul an abyss.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

April 6th, 2014

Rabbi Schorin cherished Idelle Poll Horan as part of the royalty at CJE Lieberman Center. She like so many blessed other parents there had children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

March 24th, 2014

Idelle believed in an afterlife, Olam Haba, where a woman is judged and her soul continues to flourish. “All Israel have a share in the world to come” (Mishna Sanhedrin 11:1).

~Hope Horan Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

March 11th, 2014

Isaiah (based on 49:6) Our Jewish world must be an or la-Goyim, “A Light unto the Nations”.

~Hope Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, IL

February 21st, 2014

This is a very short poem by W.H. Auden written in 1957:

“How should we like it would stars to burn
with a passion for us we could not return.
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”

This is how Idelle lived her life through age 92.

~Hope Horan Chapman
~Daughter, Hoffman Estates, Illinois