Tag: Kaddish
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Who Has the Right to Ritual
Who has the right to ritual, to define what is and what isn’t appropriate or appropriated, to declare themselves as a member of the tribe? Mourning the more than 33,000 Jews executed at Babi Yar isn’t the only reason I am collecting recordings of Kaddish. I am also trying to claim tradition and ritual and…
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Prayers for Mourning
Kaddish Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for mourners. It’s said every day for eleven months after the death of a family member. After that it is repeated yearly on the anniversary of the death. It marks a completion. Its meaning is unimportant. The sound of the words, spoken in ancient Aramaic, is what is important.…