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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The yahrzeit candle symbolized as much the loss of life as the loss of our innocence. ❋ 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." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Further, the remembrance yahrzeit comes not only on the one-year-anniversary but annually. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In honor of my mom's yahrzeit, Nomi and I are sponsoring kiddush at our shul, Kadimah-Toras Moshe, on shabbas morning. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'll be observing Dad's yahrzeit starting tonight. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I've talked about my father and his life before, usually in posts around the time of his yahrzeit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An analogy: what if Target and Urban Outfitters started selling yahrzeit-looking candles as aromatherapy? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Where Personal and Professional Life Collide ... suricata's burrow and bar yahrzeit suricattus ❋ Suricattus (2006)

But, this is not the time, on the eve of his yahrzeit, to remember his faults and failures. ❋ Unknown (2007)

By Jewish tradition, a yahrzeit candle is lit on Yom Kippur in addition to the anniversary of a loved one's death. ❋ Unknown (2007)

According to the secular calendar, this coming Monday is the yahrzeit–the anniversary of the death–of Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, an inspiring teacher with whom I was privileged to study for a short time before his untimely death in a road accident in 1998. ❋ Unknown (2006)

According to the secular calendar, this coming Monday is the yahrzeit–the anniversary of the death–of Rabbi ... ❋ Unknown (2006)

Last Monday night, when we lit the \yahrzeit\ candle, a friend was visiting from out of town. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Hicks, who was notorious for his scathing commentary on evangelical Christianity would have had a field day with all this Passion business, thus making this “yahrzeit” a particularly relevant one. ❋ Unknown (2004)