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The journey of mourning / Richard Hirsh.
LIBRA BM712 .H57 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsh, Richard
- Series:
- Guide to Jewish practice
- A guide to Jewish practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish mourning customs.
- Reconstructionist Judaism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 92 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wyncote, PA : Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Press, ©2006.
- Contents:
- Aninut : from death to burial
- Halvayat Hamet : the funeral
- Halvayat Hamet : the burial
- Shiva : the first week
- Sheloshim : the first month
- Yahrtzeit : the first year
- Hazkarat Neshamot : the memorializing of souls
- Bitzror Hahayim : the bond of life
- Issues related to mourning
- For everything there is a season
- For further reading
- The Kaddish Prayer (including translation and transliteration)
- Conclusion of Shiva
- A service of dedication for a memorial marker
- A ritual Yahrtzeit Licht/Lighting a memorial candle
- A ritual for closing a home following a death.
- Notes:
- Earlier versions appeared as a pamphlet published by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (2001); in "Kol Hameshamah : prayers for a house of mourning;" and in "Behoref Hayamim, in the Winter of life."
- This edition of "The journey of mouring" is one chapter from what will eventually be a full volume entitled "A guide to Jewish practice."
- Includes some prayers in vocalized Hebrew.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 71) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0938945106
- 9780938945109
- OCLC:
- 1063009018
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