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Death & Mourning

While Judaism places great emphasis on our lives in this world, death is an inevitable end for all of us. Often Jews who have been distant from traditional Jewish practice for their whole lives seek the comfort of traditional Judaism in the face of death. For mourners, whose lives are often turned upside down by death, the traditional practices of mourning can provide structure and comfort.

Prayer After Loss of Pregnancy or Stillbirth

Praying for healing after the devastating loss of a pregnancy [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement, Pregnancy Loss

Tags: miscarriage, stillbirth

Ritual for a Widow to Remove Her Wedding Ring

Ceremony with friends and officiant including song and a ritual handwashing [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement

Tags: Debbie Friedman, handwashing, widow

A Kavanah for a Widowhood Journey

A prayer for the year of mourning and the journey of widowhood [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement

Tags: widow

Excerpts from Walking Through the Valley of the Shadow: When a Jewish Child Dies

Advice for coping with the devastating loss of a child [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement

Tags: loss of a child, yahrzeit

Traveling the Mourner's Path

A ritual on concluding a year of saying kaddish [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement

Tags: kaddish

Reclaiming the Mourner's Path

An article about the power of traditional mourning practices for healing and an idea for a new ritual [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement

Women and Kaddish

An article discussing the issues around Orthodox women saying kaddish [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement

Tags: kaddish

Prelude to Kaddish

Preparing to say Kaddish for an abusive parent on the occasion of their yahrzeit [more]

Found In: Mourning & Bereavement, Healing from Trauma & Abuse

Tags: yahrzeit

Paths of Fullness: An Interpretation of Psalm 23

A contemporary Jewish poem for mourning and sorrow [more]

Found In: Funeral & Burial

Tags: Psalm 23, Siddur Kol Haneshamah, unveiling, yizkor

Commemorative Acrostics

Selecting verses from Psalms on the basis of the Hebrew name of the deceased [more]

Found In: Funeral & Burial

Tags: shloshim, unveiling