Yizkor: Instructions for Remembering, by Rabbi Nina Mizrahi
Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=12004
open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Date: 2015-09-22
Last Updated: 2025-02-02
Categories: Mourning
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical hazkarat neshamot, הזכרת נשמות hazkarat neshamot, יזכור yizkor
Excerpt: A paraliturgical yizkor prayer. . . .
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Remember.
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Remember the blessings of those who no longer walk this earth.
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Remember each name, each life-story.
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Remember on behalf of those whose memory fails.
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Remember with love the sweet and the bittersweet.
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Remember with forgiveness the hurt and misunderstanding.
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Remember with insight so you might experience deeper meaning.
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Remember through the pain until you can touch the joy and find comfort.
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Remember through dreams left unfulfilled and choose one to fulfill.
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Remember through your heart.
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Remember through your actions.
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Remember through living with kindness, generosity and forgiveness.
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Remember by planting memories and helping them take root in the living.
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Remember by opening your heart even if you thought it was closed forever.
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Remember to live your own life as a blessing.
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Remember to do all this.
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Remember and you will be remembered.
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Remember.
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Rabbi Mizrahi’s instructions for remembering were first published on her website, here. In 2019, these instructions were revised, omitting one line.
Contributor: Nina Jane Mizrahi
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Name: Nina Jane Mizrahi
Bio: Rabbi Nina Mizrahi is the director of the Pritzker Center for Jewish Education of the JCC of Chicago. Raised as a free-range child, Rabbi Nina Mizrahi’s deep spiritual center is rooted in the woods of upstate New York. After studying Biology and Environmental Chemistry in college, she worked in a research lab. Later ordained at HUC-JIR, her approach to Jewish life draws from all expressions of Judaism and is influenced by science, nature and neo-chasidism. Rabbi Nina honors all learning styles and inspires learners to think in new ways. Identified as a community rabbi, she seeks to bring together believer, atheist and agnostic, humanist, deist and seeker, to discover a shared tradition of ethical and spiritual values.
Website: https://rabbininajmizrahi.wordpress.com
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/nina-jane-mizrahi
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Title: Discovering the trees (credit: Alessandro Pucci, license: CC BY)
Caption: "Discovering the Trees," WWF Camp in Tuscany. All the year children live in their cities; for 2 weeks they learn how to listen to the environment and themselves. (credit: Alessandro Pucci, license: CC BY)
