Preserve the memory of your loved one with a plaque on our Yahrzeit(Yiddish) The anniversary of a death, usually marked by the lighting of a 24-hour yahrzeit candle and the recitation of Kaddish, the memorial prayer. For U.S. Jews, the unveiling of the headstone usually takes place on or around the first yahrzeit. Wall. Learn More ->
While there are many traditional Jewish prayers for healing, the feminist movement empowered first women and then men and women to create many more prayers and ceremonies which spoke to the specific situations in which they found themselves. The complexity of modern medicine has added to this need for prayers for medical tests, prayers before surgery, prayers after chemotherapy and for each chemo session, etc. In addition, several writers on Ritualwell have created ceremonies to celebrate an important anniversary in relationship to their disease.Â
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“I never understood / why you couldn’t just / let my people go”
“I used to whisper evening prayers / Now I recite statistics”
“I’m calling her daily, even / Though it took a pandemic”
“I am sorry / you cannot play / with your friends”
“I’m OK during the day, but at night I get scared”
“Please mute yourself and listen”
“I love seeing the inside of your home”
Mikveh ceremony for transitioning to life after experiencing the coronavirus pandemic
Ritual to acknowledge the complicated experience of feeling both gratitude and grief
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