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Mourner's Kaddish

noun

, Judaism.


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And then there are those in no danger of forgetting, for whom the names of the camps, as intoned in the final moments are as ingrained as the hypnotic babble of grief we call the Mourner’s Kaddish.

By the time we began the recital of the Mourner’s Kaddish, my anxiety had become dread, and the cramping and dizziness had returned with a vengeance.

Among the many examples of the outpouring of concern, caring and hesed, roughly translated as “lovingkindness,” expressed by the entire city, he points to the headline, in Hebrew, that appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the day of one of the funerals, with the first four words of the traditional Jewish prayer known as the Mourner’s Kaddish.

Mourners then come together for shiva, a seven-day period where family members receive visitors, recite the Mourner’s Kaddish as part of the daily prayer service and reminisce over the life of their loved one.

I was grateful to be able to attend the Zoom evening services, which included the Mourner’s Kaddish.

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