On his last album, You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen, who has died at age 82, appeared at peace with his own mortality. "Hineni, hineni / I'm ready, my Lord," Cohen intoned on the title track, employing Hebrew to say "Here I Am."
Cohen wandered the world reaching into his own melancholy and emerged as a sublime, spiritual voice for his generation.
Born into a prosperous Jewish family that had founded synagogues in Canada, Cohen would be hailed as one of the all-time literary greats in his native country but spent his adult life constantly on the move both geographically and spiritually.
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