Shabbat Shira for Debbie Friedman z"l

This Shabbat is Shabbat Shira, the Shabbat of Song. This past Sunday, we lost our voice. This Shabbat, let us find our voice again. Wherever you are for Shabbat, whatever you are doing, do something to honor Debbie's memory; sing Miriam's Song with Shirat HaYam, sing Devorah's Song with Shirat Devorah. Sing her songs loudly and share them with those around you. Her memory is truly a blessing.

Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin's words about Shabbat Shira:
"It is a matter of sad, poignant irony that Debbie died at the beginning of the week that Jews mark as Shabbat Shira, the Shabbat of song. It is the Shabbat in which we read — no, we sing — of the crossing of the Sea of Reeds and how Miriam led the women in joyous singing. In the Haftorah, Miriam’s song morphs into the song of Deborah, a celebration of military victory that is our tradition’s oldest song. It is another poignant, yet sweet and even poetic, irony that two of Debbie’s most famous compositions celebrate both Miriam and Deborah, her biblical namesake. They are in heaven, but here on earth they are enshrined in history as the greatest Jewish women composers. And now, Debbie Friedman takes her place with them.
"May it not be too outrageous to suggest — that at this very moment Debbie is in the olam haba, the world to come — and that she is jamming with Miriam, Deborah, Hannah Senesh, Ofra Haza, Naomi Shemer and every anonymous Jewish woman who ever sang to a child, or to a student, or to a lover, or, certainly, to God."
http://www.forward.com/articles/134568/