Ways to Honor and Commemorate:
Yahrzeit & Kaddish

MyJewishLearning.com and NJMW.org joined together to provide a guide for honoring and commemorating Yahrzeit and Yitzkor, and to help capture your family heritage through positive remembrance and sharing of stories, pictures, and connecting community.

Quick Steps to Help Remember & Celebrate

		Set a Reminder We recommend setting a free yahrzeit reminder. This is an easy way for you and family member to remember loved ones. Set a Free Reminder >>
		Create a Plaque On NJMW.org you can create a memorial plaque for loved ones. In addition to inscribing your loved one on a yahrzeit wall honoring traditional Jewish customs, here you are able post stories in both words and through pictures to share with future generations. This online community allows you to build a personal family wall to help honor, celebrate and remember your family history. Create a Plaque >>
		Share You can use this interactive and religiously significant community to share and engage with other family members and friends to honor and commemorate loved ones. Your yahrzeit reminders and personal Wall are designed to connect, maintain, and perpetuate families through story telling for current and future generations.

There are traditional and customary ways to honor and commemorate Yahrzeit and Yitzkor dates for loved ones. Below you can find information, tools and resources to help you remember and celebrate your loved ones

Yahrzeit
Remembering on the Anniversary of a Death

The yahrzeit is a time of remembering the dead by reciting the Kaddish, lighting a 24-hour candle, and remembering the person who has died.

Judaism has many traditions and customs surrounding the Yahrzeit, which the yiddish translation is 'a year's time,' also known as the anniversary of the death of a loved one.

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Kaddish
A Memorial Prayer in Praise of God

The Mourner's Kaddish is known as the "Mourner's Prayer." This prayer is said in honor of the deceased and focuses on life, promise and hope for individuals of the Jewish faith. Generally, the Kaddish is recited in a prayer service, on a daily or weekly basis, after the death of a close relative and on Yahrzeit and Yitzkor dates.

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