Eli Hecht: Solving the kaddish, kiddush quandary

Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA. | January 16, 2008| | Copyright

Recently, as my mother's yahrzeit - anniversary of her death - came around I wondered: Was I going to New York to pray at her gravesite and recite the kaddish, or was I going to Florida to pray with my father, and have a kiddush.

In the Jewish lexicon kaddish and kiddush sound and are spelled almost the same way.

Kaddish is a prayer recited by mourners at a service, usually in a synagogue. It is recited to give honor to God. The prayer is beautiful and all-encompassing. Its message is that God is holy and his name is holy. By reciting the kaddish in a public area the name of God becomes more ...

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