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Yahrzeit for My Father
"I found a pair of dress shoes I had long forgotten / caked with mud / hidden away in the back of my closet"
Sara Stock Mayo
Yahrzeit Light Prayer
"The yarzeit light shines with the light of their souls"
Barbara Rothstein, PhD
Memorial Prayer for Miscarriage, Stillbirth & Baby Loss
"Shekhinah – Divine Presence, may You comfort us"
Kohenet Yael Tischler
Remembering the Organ Donor
Lighting a yahrzeit candle for an organ donor
Rabbi Morton Levine
Reconstructing Yahrzeit
A Sea of Names: Healing our Imperfect Relationships through Mourner’s...
Shema to Comfort Mourners
"To remember these words / not only / when we lie down in slumber"
Devon Spier
What Remains
"It just became your life, your house always lit up like / Paris at night because you were afraid of the darkness splicing / time ever again"
Amy Gottlieb
Remembering Regina Jonas, First Woman Rabbi
Memorial Ritual for Regina Jonas
A memorial ritual to honor the first woman rabbi, Regina Jonas
Jewish Women's Archive

Prelude to Kaddish

By Joe Septimus

Preparing to say Kaddish for an abusive parent on the occasion of their yahrzeit more

Tags: yahrzeit, kaddish, abuse, child abuse

Yahrzeit for My Father

By Sara Stock Mayo

"I found a pair of dress shoes I had long forgotten / caked with mud / hidden away in the back of my closet" more

Tags: mourning, yahrzeit, family

Yahrzeit Light Prayer

By Barbara Rothstein, PhD

"The yarzeit light shines with the light of their souls" more

Tags: yahrzeit

Memorial Prayer for Miscarriage, Stillbirth & Baby Loss

By Kohenet Yael Tischler

"Shekhinah – Divine Presence, may You comfort us" more

Tags: mourning, miscarriage, loss of a child, kaddish, yahrzeit

Remembering the Organ Donor

By Rabbi Morton Levine

Lighting a yahrzeit candle for an organ donor more

Tags: healing, yahrzeit

Reconstructing Yahrzeit

By Ed Towbin Issur ha-Levi

How could I replace an empty exercise with something meaningful? more

Tags: yahrzeit, kaddish, mourning, Reconstructionism

A Sea of Names: Healing our Imperfect Relationships through Mourner’s Kaddish

By Donna Harel

New boats come each week as the familiar ones start to leave. You connect, once a week, to the lost soul... more

Tags: grief, yahrzeit, shiva

Shema to Comfort Mourners

"To remember these words / not only / when we lie down in slumber" more

Tags: shema, yahrzeit, grief

What Remains

By Amy Gottlieb

"It just became your life, your house always lit up like / Paris at night because you were afraid of the darkness splicing / time ever again" more

Tags: Father's Day, yahrzeit

Remembering Regina Jonas, First Woman Rabbi

By Rabbi Annie Lewis

For many years, Regina’s story of becoming the first woman rabbi was forgotten, tucked away in archives, lost among ashes. more

Tags: yahrzeit

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