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“This is the yahrzeit of the Life we lived before”
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.
“We are here / To find the cracks / At the edges of possibilities”
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“Grief and memory hold hands / as, broken-hearted, we find our way through the Jewish year”
sign in hebrew that reads "yizkor" memorial - black letters on white stone
“Why is it that I couldn’t know them more fully?”
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“I want to know this: did God see you / trying as hard as you could / to live?”
In This Place
“You can’t bring them back, but you can learn their Torah”
You Can’t Bring Back the Dead

“May you know that you are always remembered for the good you have done”

For Those We Remember with Love: Seven Blessings of Memory and Hope

“Source of All Life: Welcome home those we’ve lost”

Yizkor Kavannah

“These I remember and my heart breaks open with tears”

Eileh Ezkarah: A Martyrology Service for Our Time

Honoring the memory of the deceased

A Ritual to Prepare for the Yizkor of Yom Kippur

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