My Kaddish Year

Through this blog, written during my year of saying kaddish for my mother, Hilda Yael Kessler, may her memory be for a blessing, I attempted to reflect on and find meaning about the internal as well as ritualistic processes of mourning. I hope others may identify with and find some measure of comfort in its words.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Kaddish dilemma

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Last Shabbat in Berkeley I faced a dilemma.  The Mincha afternoon service was switched from the late afternoon to 1:30 p.m., an hour and a h...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Mourner's Hallel

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Hallel is a series of psalms recited on Holidays.   It was just recited for the two days of Rosh Chodesh for the new month of Adar.   ...

9, then 10, redux

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Once again Friday evening in Berkeley at a service in someone's home. For mincha we had 9, thus no Kaddish. Then we begin Kabbalat Shabb...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Joy in shul, but not in my heart

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Today there was a Bar Mitzvah in shul.  It was Rosh Chodesh Adar (the new Hebrew month).  Adar is considered a joyous month.  The saying goe...

Visiting my father, missing my mother

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I'm out again in Berkeley, California visiting my father.  I stay in the house where my parents lived together for 32 years.  I feel my ...
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