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I sat down and cried like a baby. i couldn't stop. it just came out. i haven't held it in me, but this is the last funeral, and every time i do one, for me, because i'm also a cantor, when i chant the memorial prayer, it takes a piece of my soul away. and i have no more left to give. my tank is empty. >> reporter: and so what do you say to your congregants who say, why, how does this happen, how does god let this happen? >> i don't believe god lets this stuff happen. humans have a choice. and this person chose, made this choice. to me, god is the one i turn to when i have no strength, to say, ...

Part of the conversation i would like to keep personal. i have been through this a few times, and i don't know how people would react to see that horror. it's seared in my brain and it's a sight i will never forget the rest of my life. after we lit the 11 memorial candles, i chanted the memorial prayer in hebrew and in english, and the president asked if i would escort he and the first lady to the memorial, and i gave him a bit of a background story about each person because it was a human being that lived and was a good and decent person, and

Zip the lip. just don't say it. it just takes one person to make that difference. the question i have for you is, any of you are that person to do that. i leave you with that question. you have to answer it for us. within the jewish tradition, there is a memorial prayer that's recited in memory of our deceas deceased. permit me to share the text in english and i will be chanting it in hebrew and asking to rise. it ruffle reads, oh, lord, of mercy and compassion, you dwell in the heights with the holy and the pure. we beseech you to accept the souls of these 11 beautiful people who gave their l...