... * Mourners and those observing Tahrzeit, please rise. n t p m a V f all t h e PRAYERS IN the Jewish liturgy, only one lives inside my mouth. ' T | • Ever since I was ten years old, I have wanted to rise with the other...

...“Dressed in our kippot and tallitot, we recited the Mourner’s Kaddish for all the victims of the attacks on Gaza.” ...

...” variety. We can no longer even fool ourselves into thinking that the U.S. might pressure the parties to come to a deal. We are at another in a long series of crisis moments. Mourners at the funeral of 50-year-old Aviram Reuven who was killed in a stabbing attack by a Palestinian man in 2015...

.... We cannot know what Che would have thought, written, or done had he lived; we can, however, appreciate that his thought was evolving, that it was not a closed book. The Mourner’s Kaddish certainly does not require that the person mourned be Jewish. The prayer does compel the mourner...

... that can help us articulate our pain or our primal fears of mortality. As the yartzheit (death anniversary) of a close friend approached, I pulled out Kaddish to see if I could locate myself on its pages. True, I never said kaddish (the mourner’s prayer) for my friend, but I think it might have been...

..., it was to develop oneself. my own substitute prayers that could do the Overtime, Buddha’s sanctions worked. People might wonder what relevance work of the Mourner’s Kaddish. All Laypeople began to withhold alms from the integration of Freudian and Buddhist through high school, I woke in the early...

...Emily Rabasto At a candlelight vigil in Sacramento, a mourner from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network weeps for the hundreds of disabled people who have been killed by their parents or caregivers. ...

... at a menorah made of bullets. Remember when we sat up till midnight talking Marx and eating blintzes? We sang Sabbath songs and partisan songs for hours until we knew what to feel . And when we sang, it was then, and only then , that we belonged . The soul sees the cantor riding his mourner’s...

... that follow, sometimes it helps to recite the kaddish in the presence of the daily quorum. But “We stand there with the other mourners, all of them from another generation. Even amid community, our experience is solitary. Whose wife dies at thirty-two? Who loses a mother at age four? We stand within a vast...

... LIVING K A D D ISH /T H E TROUBLE WITH LIBERALS my father still alive? Couldn’t I, if I wanted be considered never to have happened. and response. The mourner’s praise of God to, pick up the phone and call, fly to Israel Other Talmudic scholars argued that while is also a crying out: hear me...

... tells the story of Jews locked in the Warsaw ghetto. His previous book, the highly regarded Last Kabbalist of Lisbon also had a grim setting: the lachrymose reality of the Portuguese Inquisition. Yet Zimler is not a mourner of deaths, but a champion of hope and life. His novels are at once thrillers...

... munity, and connection to the surviving mourners. “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith” Re-Centering (Proverbs 15:17). Th is u n d ersta n d in g of t h e life cycle as m arkin g t h e beg in n in g s and end ings...

... fear of death stems from our separation from the whole of life, the opposite of the “radical amazement” that Heschel wished for us. In fact, the presence of death should deepen our appreciation of life—and this, I believe, is the profound meaning of the Mourners’ Kaddish , which celebrates life just...

... of a Jewish school) was murdered by Arabs. When the Israeli prime minister came for a shiva call (a traditional visit to comfort the mourners), he offered the widow money. She threw it back in his face. Instead she demanded and got permission to build a permanent building there to replace...

...- for kol peace Yisrael, a in prayer end might Mourners of perhaps the which dish, recitation special a in done be could this Jews, For TIKKUN 2 8...

... ofshafa 'ah (intercession on be­ the modem economy. half of sinners). Preachers I encountered in Pakistan and India recounted legends about how Fatima continues to lament her martyred son even while she resides in paradise, and about how she is comforted whenever mourners gather here...

.... For surely now he must be convinced that this mourner is not anywise forsaken by the Presence, but quite the contrary, the Presence is very near unto him, so near that he actually receives and welcomes it each and every...

... no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.’ Cain said to the LORD, ‘My punishment is greater than I can bear.’” These words begin Mourner’s Kaddish, recited at Jewish Shabbat services for those mourning the dead: The English words in the story translate...