He asked a friend, Jack Edelstein, to attend to some of his personal business. With every breath becoming a struggle, he asked Edelstein to pray with him. “Why don’t you say it and I’ll listen and say it along with you?” Edelstein said. “Of David. A psalm,” Biegeleisen began, speaking in Hebrew. “The earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it, the world and those that live in it … .”
