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. 2009

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

Enid Borden: America's Moms: No Holiday From Hunger Enid Borden 2011

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

Enid Borden: America's Moms: No Holiday From Hunger Enid Borden 2011

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."

Menachem Wecker: Stephen Prothero's Jewish Problem 2010

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

Menachem Wecker: Stephen Prothero's Jewish Problem 2010

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 2010

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 2009

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 fizzixrat 2009

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. 2009

I'll be observing Dad's yahrzeit starting tonight.

Joel David Burstein (December 11, 1929 - November 2, 1990) 2008