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Saying Kaddish

Anita Diamant's books include Choosing a Jewish Life, The New Jewish Wedding, Living a Jewish Life, and The Red Tent, a novel. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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Title of ebook: Saying Kaddish
ISBN: 9780805212181
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 1068 kb
Pages: 288
Released online for download: 08-07-2007
Author of eBook: Diamant, Anita

Saying Kaddish

How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
What Kaddish Means

Beyond language, Kaddish is more than the sum of its words. First and foremost, it is an experience of the senses. Like music, there is no understanding Kaddish without hearing and feeling it and letting go of the words.

One of the great ironies of Kaddish is that it was written in a vernacular language so that it could be understood and led by scholars and laborers alike. Today, of course, Aramaic is far more obscure than Hebrew.

That the recitation of words long dead can remain a source of consolation testifies to the fact that Kaddish transcends language. Its comforts are rooted in preverbal ways of knowing. Like a mother's heartbeat against the infant ear, Kaddish makes an elemental sound -- natural as rain on a wooden roof and as human as a lullaby.

In addition to being a profession of faith and a doxology, it is also mantra and meditation. In rhythmic repetition of syllables and sounds, the list of praises (glorified, celebrated, lauded) builds into a kind of incantation:

Yit-ba-rach v'yish-ta-bach
v'yit-pa-ar v'yit-ro-mam ... read full excerpt from Saying Kaddish ebook


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