Yizkor at Home - CBI Berkshires Jewish "...I thought I’d try something new this year: giving us a way to remember loved ones with a short Yizkor remembrance at home. Although traditionally Yizkor is communal, this communal ritual clearly i...

For anyone who doesn't have a place to go for #Yizkor (memorial prayers) this #Pesach, or wants to say them at home on your own time...

cbiberkshires.com/yizkor-at-ho...

This year, as it did in 2006, the 19th of Cheshvan falls on November 10. Hard to believe it's been 19 years.

Miss you every day, Dad -- as I said on the air, you were a "righteous dude" -- and I always remember your pride in serving our country, and your fellow veterans.

#Yortzayt #Yizkor

Crowdsourcing: what are your best #poems for #yizkor / remembrance?

A child prepped for a metal music festival, back in the early aughts: mandatory Metallica shirt (mine from the 80s!), black Tripp shorts, long blonde hair, much black eyeliner, a touch of hot pink eyeshadow, and So Much Attitude.

The #Yizkor part of the service hit me way harder than I expected it to today. Bless the folks who keep tissues in their bag. I needed many of them. I couldn't even read the daughter-specific prayer; still can't. Maybe tomorrow.

#Grief #Grieving

Oh no. Baruch dayan emet.

I've already made the slide for this year's #Yizkor services bemoaning this year's mass shootings. And now I will be updating it. Amanda Gorman's poem still rings true. I wish it didn't.

A New Prayer/Poem for Yizkor: Together - Bayit: Building Jewish This is a prayer I wrote on the morning of Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s funeral.  Jewish tradition does not have one set idea about what happens after death, so the first part […]

New from Shari Salzhauer Berkowitz comes this prayer/poem for #Yizkor this year. It begins:
"When a group of people die in violence
Do their neshamot stay together?..."
Click through to read the whole thing and thoughts on how one might use it: yourbayit.org/together/

Beside Still Waters - a volume for mourners - Bayit: Building Jewish Beside Still Waters is a volume for the mourner's path: before & after death, shiva, yahrzeit and yizkor. Including prayers for difficult circumstances.

The last thing I should mention in this thread is, I got to edit a volume of prayer and poetry resources for #shiva, #yahrzeit, and #yizkor. It came out right before my mom died. It may be the editing project of which I am most proud.

yourbayit.org/beside-still...

If you are looking for a progressive, contemplative Jewish community with which to remember those who have died, consider joining @cbhatl for #Yizkor Saturday evening....