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'I Was a Pariah Until I Became a Mourner': Saying Kaddish, a Son on
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09-25-1998
`I Was a Pariah Until I Became a Mourner': Saying Kaddish, a Son on the Margins Returns to the Center
As the veteran literary editor of The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier -- Brooklyn-born son of Holocaust survivors, Yeshiva of Flatbush graduate, near-Ph.D. from Harvard in medieval Jewish history and the subject several years ago of a gossipy and much-talked-about "man-about-Washington" profile in Vanity Fair -- has long run what is probably the best and most intelligent book section of any American newspaper or magazine. But, as in the Yiddish proverb about the shoemaker ...
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Book review: What the dead bring to life KADDISH BY LEON WIESELTIER, PICADOR, pounds 20
; KADDISH IS the unedited...a year after his father's death, Leon Wieseltier...recited the mourner's kaddish in accordance with...brief mention of his father. It is difficult...whom he is saying kaddish three times a day...to recreate his father in its pages. Perhaps...parent was. The ...
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Eli Hecht: Solving the kaddish, kiddush quandary
; ...Florida to pray with my father, and have a kiddush. In the Jewish lexicon kaddish and kiddush sound...Florida and be with my father for the kaddish and kiddush? Well...memory by reciting the kaddish, plus by being with my father on the yahrzeit...
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Saying a Prayer For His Father
; KADDISH By Leon Wieseltier...27.50 When my father died, the rabbi...me through the kaddish, the Jewish prayer...the burial of my father. A Jew dies, and...there is one) says kaddish. As we learn from...tradition. When his father died in 1996, he said kaddish three times daily...
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THE EDGE OF TOWN: The Last Kaddish; Mourners struggle alone at year's end.
; ...something. His father, for whom Yakov was saying Kaddish, looked young...thought: the end of Kaddish marking the time that his father's soul was judged...letting go of my father." "The Sephardim...week, then say Kaddish again for the remaining...
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Kaddish.(Review)
; ...has died. When his father died in 1996, Wieseltier...say the mourner's kaddish three times daily...they buried their father this morning. They have come to say kaddish, but they are not...life around the kaddish, I have been organizing...my life around my father. When kaddish ...
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Three Types Of Kaddish, And Moods
; ...mother and then for my father, I accepted the old Jewish bromide that Kaddish, the classic prayer...this second form of Kaddish. She told me that after her father died, she decided...she said of her father. For her, Kaddish was an act of study...
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The Mourning Son: Leon Wieseltier unravels the beauty and mysteries of the Kaddish.
; ...March 1996, his father died. For the next...synagogue to say Kaddish three times a day...able to free his father's soul. Wieseltier...understand that the Kaddish is not said for...dead, that a son's Kaddish redeems the father. It is a sign of...
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LOOKING IN: The Fulfilling Mission Of Kaddish
; ...These thoughts about Kaddish come to mind as...recitation for my father. At the outset...expect me to say Kaddish for my father, you'd better get...time to recite the Kaddish. Of course the sky...certain my late father would have been...
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The Caress Of Kaddish
; ...recently stopped saying Kaddish for my father. The custom is that...explanations for reciting Kaddish and stopping after...or punishment my father merits in the world...stood to recite Kaddish, I would often specifically think of my father, of his life, and...
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Father's love and devotion transform sacrifice into joy.
; His father's life, that distant September, was bordered...apartment would ring, the son watched as his father climbed the stairs to push words like malignant...memory of that fall are two moments when his father was called to the phone to say yes to emergency...
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