yahrzeit

• “While the body of her work reflects an unending quest for absolute perfection of form, she also produced functional pieces, such as yahrzeit (memorial) lamps.”

  Gertrud Amon Natzler.

• “The yahrzeit candle symbolized as much the loss of life as the loss of our innocence.”

  The Huffington Post: Enid Borden: America's Moms: No Holiday From Hunger

• “In a subsection titled "Life Cycle Rituals," Prothero announces that Jewish mourning rituals include "a seven-day period of sitting shiva in the home followed by burial, Kaddish prayers for the dead, and a one-year-anniversary remembrance called the yahrzeit.”

  The Huffington Post: Menachem Wecker: Stephen Prothero's Jewish Problem

• “Further, the remembrance yahrzeit comes not only on the one-year-anniversary but annually.”

  The Huffington Post: Menachem Wecker: Stephen Prothero's Jewish Problem

• “So we set up yahrzeit candles in our bedroom and the bathroom as night lights, had 3-4 Sabbath candles at the table for dinner/evening illumination, one or two of the 7-day candles for night-light level illumination in a couple of other places.”

  Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions

• “In many families of Holocaust survivors, a particular child is chosen to serve as a type of “yahrzeit (memorial) candle” for those family members who perished.”

  Artists: "Second Generation" in Israel.

• “In honor of my mom's yahrzeit, Nomi and I are sponsoring kiddush at our shul, Kadimah-Toras Moshe, on shabbas morning.”

  Mom's Yahrzeit This Shabbat: Talk on Superman

• “Since shabbat was Mom's yahrzeit, I made a point of getting to the shul on Friday evening as well as Saturday morning so I could recite Mourner's Kaddish.”

  Busy Weekend

• “I'll be observing Dad's yahrzeit starting tonight.”

  Joel David Burstein (December 11, 1929 - November 2, 1990)

• “I've talked about my father and his life before, usually in posts around the time of his yahrzeit.”

  My Father's Birthday

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