kaddish
kad·dish [ ˈkä-dish]
[ˈkä-dish]
plural kaddishes also kaddishim\ kä-ˈdi-shim , -(ˌ)shēm \
: a Jewish prayer recited in the daily ritual of the synagogue and by mourners at public services after the death of a close relative
Recent Examples on the Web
//There were not enough people to say kaddish, the prayer for the dead, so the rabbi rang doorbells in the apartment building, looking for worshipers to join them.
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Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, "Gay and Once Divorced, a Canadian Rabbi Broadens Judaism’s Tent," 12 July 2019
//The two Australian Jews stood side-by-side in the cemetery to recite the kaddish for their deceased siblings.
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Emanuella Grinberg, Smithsonian, "When a Bavarian Monastery Provided a Home to Jewish Refugees," 11 July 2018
//Your goal is to mark them in a way that people can come to them with tears in their eyes, come to them as memorials, come to them to say the mourner’s kaddish.
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Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, "The Holocaust’s Great Escape," 29 Mar. 2017
//Your goal is to mark them in a way that people can come to them with tears in their eyes, come to them as memorials, come to them to say the mourner’s kaddish.
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Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, "The Holocaust’s Great Escape," 29 Mar. 2017
//Indeed, the kaddish may be interpreted as our words of comfort to God Himself.
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Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, "Weiss: Teshuvah: God's return to us," 12 Sep. 2017
//Your goal is to mark them in a way that people can come to them with tears in their eyes, come to them as memorials, come to them to say the mourner’s kaddish.
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Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, "The Holocaust’s Great Escape," 29 Mar. 2017
//Your goal is to mark them in a way that people can come to them with tears in their eyes, come to them as memorials, come to them to say the mourner’s kaddish.
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Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, "The Holocaust’s Great Escape," 29 Mar. 2017
//Your goal is to mark them in a way that people can come to them with tears in their eyes, come to them as memorials, come to them to say the mourner’s kaddish.
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Matthew Shaer, Smithsonian, "The Holocaust’s Great Escape," 29 Mar. 2017
First Known Use of kaddish
1613, in the meaning defined above
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