mourning

Can women say the Mourner's Kaddish?

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A practical guide to preparations for Jewish burial and mourning.

This fast commemorates the beginning of the end of the First Temple.

The Kaddish originated as an expression of praise to God following a learned discourse.

The Kaddish responds to three questions: Is there a God? Why do people die? What is the meaning of life?

Study in honor of dead; women reciting Kaddish; Kaddish integrating mourners into communities; and hiring someone to say Kaddish.

Recent historical events have lead to new archetypes.

Communal remembering was constructed on the basis of traditional Jewish archetypes.

The fast that precedes the holiday of Purim.