Topic Tags: yahrzeit

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The Pandemic Yizkor

“This is the yahrzeit of the Life we lived before”
  • by Carol L. Skolnick
pandemic, yahrzeit, yizkor
young man in black t-shirt and pants shown from behind standing at curtained window, parting the curtain and looking outside. Curtain is a gauzy white and there is a black area to the right, creating a stark white and black effect to the scene.

Let It Burn

“Blessed burning of yahrzeit candle’
  • by Tiferet Welch
grief, suicide, yahrzeit
lit candle, thick and white, next to white petal on wood table against black background

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”

  • by Sara Stock Mayo
family, mourning, yahrzeit
Yahrzeit for My Father

Yahrzeit Light Prayer

“The yarzeit light shines with the light of their souls”

  • by Barbara Rothstein, PhD
yahrzeit
Yahrzeit Light Prayer

Memorial Prayer for Miscarriage, Stillbirth & Baby Loss

“Shekhinah – Divine Presence, may You comfort us”

  • by Kohenet Yael Tischler
kaddish, loss of a child, miscarriage, mourning, yahrzeit
Memorial Prayer for Miscarriage, Stillbirth & Baby Loss

Remembering the Organ Donor

  • by Rabbi Morton Levine
healing, yahrzeit
Remembering the Organ Donor

Shema to Comfort Mourners

“To remember these words / not only / when we lie down in slumber”

  • by Devon Spier
grief, shema, yahrzeit
folded white fabric in shadows

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”

  • by Amy Gottlieb
Father's Day, yahrzeit
What Remains

Memorial Ritual for Regina Jonas

A memorial ritual to honor the first woman rabbi, Regina Jonas

  • by Jewish Women's Archive
Holocaust, yahrzeit
First female rabbi Regina Jonas

Funeral Service for a Miscarriage: A Jewish Mourning Story

A funeral service for a miscarriage

  • by BimBam (formerly G-dcast)
Hevra Kaddishah, kaddish, loss of a child, miscarriage, shloshim, stillbirth, yahrzeit
screenshot from video, chai: funeral service for a miscarriage

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