
Contributor(s): Isaac Seligman Baer and Jonah Rank
Shared on ה׳ באלול ה׳תשע״ג (2013-08-11) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Mourning, Ḳaddish
Tags: 19th century C.E., English Translation, personal, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Memorial prayers, Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish, קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish, prayers of orphans, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
Please Lord, Sovereign of Compassion, God, Arbiter of the spirits of all flesh, Parent of Orphans and Judge of widows: God, from the source of Your holiness! May my prayer and the Torah of life that I have learned come before you on account of the soul . . .
A meditation on living through the lens of dying. . . .

Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Shared on י״ד בניסן ה׳תשע״א (2011-04-17) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession, Mourning, Ḳaddish
Tags: Renewal, Aleph, Abrahamic, ecumenical prayers, interpretive translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish, קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish
Jews use the Kaddish to mourn the dead, though it has in it only one word — “nechamata,” consolations – which hints at mourning. And this word itself is used in a puzzling way, once we look at it with care. As we will see below, it may be especially appropriate in time of war. The interpretive English translation below may also be appropriate for prayers of mourning and hope in wartime by other spiritual and religious communities. In this version, changes in the traditional last line of the Hebrew text specifically include not only peace for the people Israel (as in the traditional version) but also for the children of Abraham and Hagar through Ishmael (Arabs and Muslims) and for all the life-forms who dwell upon this planet. . . .
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