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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.

Adam v’Mayyim: The Prayer Becomes the Praying

“We are here / To find the cracks / At the edges of possibilities”
  • by Tiferet Welch
creation, grief, hope, yizkor
mountains sunrise fog clouds

The Four Yizkors: Grief and Memory Hold Hands

“Grief and memory hold hands / as, broken-hearted, we find our way through the Jewish year”
  • by Rabbi Jen Gubitz
grief, memory, yizkor
sign in hebrew that reads "yizkor" memorial - black letters on white stone

Yizkor for Someone I Wish I Knew Better

“Why is it that I couldn’t know them more fully?”
  • by Rabbi Amanda Schwartz
grief, yizkor
black and white photo of drooping white flowers

In This Place

“I want to know this: did God see you / trying as hard as you could / to live?”
  • by Amy Steingart
grief, mourning, yizkor
In This Place

You Can’t Bring Back the Dead

“You can’t bring them back, but you can learn their Torah”
  • by Rabbi Chaya Gusfield
family, grief, mourning, yizkor
You Can’t Bring Back the Dead

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

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

  • by Rabbi Debra Smith
grief, mourning, yizkor
For Those We Remember with Love: Seven Blessings of Memory and Hope

Yizkor Kavannah

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

  • by Rabbi Debra Smith
grief, mourning, yizkor
Yizkor Kavannah

Eileh Ezkarah: A Martyrology Service for Our Time

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

  • by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman
angels, climate crisis, grief, martyrology, mourning, resistance, tashlikh, teshuvah, yizkor
Eileh Ezkarah: A Martyrology Service for Our Time

A Ritual to Prepare for the Yizkor of Yom Kippur

Honoring the memory of the deceased

  • by Rabbi Janet Madden
tzedakah, yizkor
A Ritual to Prepare for the Yizkor of Yom Kippur

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