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Kaddish: Love Language

“Now, your breath is within me. / And Kaddish is like a love letter.” 
  • by Amy Pollack
grief, kaddish
a collage with the words of the Kaddish and pastel watercolors

Mourner’s Kaddish/So Often Now

Elliott batTzedek shares an original interpretation of the Kaddish.
kaddish
two hands reaching to the heavens

Redefining Jewish Ritual for the Deceased

Rabbi Marina Yergin shares a new ritual for mourning.
  • by Rabbi Marina Yergin
family, kaddish
Rabbi Yergin leans against her father.

Mourners’ Kaddish In A Time of War and Violence

  • by Rabbi Arthur Waskow
kaddish, peace, war
a person sits on a rock in the desert

Shiva

“We are in mourning; / our people are in mourning; / collectively we are sitting shiva.”
  • by Bonnie Friedman
grief, Israel, kaddish, war
a candle and red flowers

Kaddish for People with Disabilities: A Prayer of Remembrance

“Blessed is God, Ruler of the Universe, who created people with disabilities in Your image. / Blessed is God, who cherishes disabled lives and desires that they flourish and thrive.”
  • by Wendy Elliott-Vandivier
disability, inclusion, kaddish, mournng
a whte-skinned woman sits in a wheelcahr and fold her hands in prayer

A Life, A Year

A poem to mark moments in a year of mourning.
  • by Pearl Adler Saban
kaddish, shiva, shloshim, yahrzeit
hourglass and calendar

After the Plague Years – A Reading for World AIDS Day

A poem to mourn the losses of life to AIDS
  • by Alex Carter
HIV/AIDS, kaddish
disco ball in dark room

Mourner’s Kaddish for Those Lost to Addiction

“Blessed are those who couldn’t take the pain of living anymore”
  • by Rabbi Lizz Goldstein
addiction, kaddish
person in silhouette looking out at foggy blue pink sky with tree in background

Kaddish for Aylan

“it cannot be a still small voice”
  • by Elizabeth Caplun
justice, kaddish, refugees
Kaddish for Aylan

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