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"Hundreds of #Jewish communities across the former #SovietUnion marked the #19thofKislev with heartfelt celebrations and #Chassidic gatherings, joining #Jews around the world in observing the “New Year of #Chassidism.” From #Moscow to #Odesa, #Riga to #Almaty, and especially in #Petersburg, the events reflected both the historical depth and the ongoing revival of Jewish and Chassidic life throughout the region.

The 19th of #Kislev commemorates the release of #Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of #Chabad Chassidism, from imprisonment in #czarist #Russia in 1798. His arrest and subsequent liberation in Petersburg are regarded as a turning point in Jewish history, enabling the wider dissemination of Chassidic teachings. The date also marks the #yahrzeit of his teacher and #Rebbe, Rabbi DovBer of Mezritch, linking the day to the very origins of the Chassidic movement." ✡️🎶 :tefillin:

https://fjc-fsu.org/jewish-communities-across-the-fsu-celebrate-19-kislev/

Remembering today my favorite veterans: My PopPop (Purple Heart, WWI), and my mom (decorated WAVE, WWII). November 11 is also the day Mom died so it’s when I observe her #yahrzeit. #VeteransDay

Having a Giant, Supersized Red Bull. Among other things, this is the 4th #Yahrzeit for my father, who passed away in December 2020.

I think I finally figured out where my great-grandfather was disappeared to.

His name was Iuvalich Eduard Simon, but I’m guessing he went by Eduard to blend in more as a traveling salesman.

The last known address we have of him is in a town in what is now on the border between Poland and Kaliningrad. He was a traveler selling wares and fixing shoes going from town to town. They probably just deported him when he was in Cologne.

#Yahrzeit 🕯️

A screenshot from the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database showing a deportation record of Eduard I Simon to the Litzmannstadt-Getto in Łódź, Poland.

Don’t think of mourning as the opposite of joy, by Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein July 31, 2024

"...The month of Av begins with deep mourning, particularly during the first nine days when we put joyous occasions on hold. The grief peaks on Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month, a day that gathers all our collective sorrows into one heavy moment. We remember...many other heartaches. The weight of our history presses down on us, demanding that we face our pain head-on.

...Joy, he says, is not merely the absence of sorrow, but the presence of a deeper connection that transcends our immediate circumstances. And in Jewish tradition, our joy is inherently collective. “The festivals as described in Deuteronomy are days of joy, precisely because they are occasions of collective celebration,” he writes. In our shared connection with God and each other, we discover a communal joy that carries us through even the toughest times..."

https://www.jta.org/2024/07/31/ideas/dont-think-of-mourning-as-the-opposite-of-joy

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewish #Yahrzeit #Yizkor

Mourning and Meaning Making -
Someday our current sorrows will be memories, woven into the tapestry of our shared destiny, By Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein

This article initially appeared in My Jewish Learning’s Shabbat newsletter Recharge on May 18, 2024.

"...This year, that process is more fraught than most. It has been only six months since the massacres of October 7th, and we are still engulfed in a brutal war. How can we engage in acts of ritual remembering when we are living in between “they tried to kill us” and “we prevailed?”

Our processes of mourning and memory can provide some guideposts. ...We gather, share stories and support those in the depths of grief, collectively waiting for the time when we might begin to make meaning. This sharing is the beginning of a narrative process during which memories become stories, eventually burnished into legacy when they motivate our actions..."

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/mourning-and-meaning-making/

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Omer #Judaism #Jewish #Shavuot #Yahrzeit

(Jewish Museum/Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman)

Shavuot begins on Tuesday, June 11. The holiday comes at the end of a 49-day period known as the counting of the Omer, a time that customarily involves mourning rituals and that culminates in the joyous reception of the Torah at Mount Sinai. In an essay for My Jewish Learning, Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein writes that the Omer, like all acts of mourning, can be a journey from despair to hope:

As hair grows and tears flow through this Omer period, we add new stories of collective and personal sorrows. Someday our current sorrows will be memories, woven into the tapestry of our shared destiny, where time and again we “sow in tears and reap in joy,” in the words of the psalmist. As we count down to Shavuot, we are reminded that, just as we stood together at Sinai, we will once again gather in the celebration of Torah and the renewal it promises.

Tonight is my great-grandfather's yahrzeit. He immigrated to NYC from the Visoke shtetl in Poland in the 1890s as a child. He was institutionalized in the Pilgrim State Hospital around 1950, around the time it had the largest patient population of any mental institution in the world (nearly 14,000).

That's about all I know about the guy, but he lived through some shit and it didn't kill him until he was in his 80s. May his memory be a blessing.

#yahrzeit

Having a Giant, Supersized Emergency Red Bull. Today is the 3rd #Yahrzeit for my father, Kenneth Reisman. Almost 3 years to the day it happened.

Ok I made it for another year. #Yahrzeit's are hard. May her memory be a blessing. 🙏🙏

The other day I found the exact #Yahrzeit #candle, but at an international foods store instead of at Target. Apparently they’re made by an Israeli food brand known for their matzos.

Stack of small white candles in glass sitting atop a store shelf. The candles read “Yehuda Yahrzeit Memorial Candle”. The yellow price tag on the shelf reads “1.49” in US Dollars.

Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

28 years and I miss him like he left us yesterday.

#DaysBetween Day 9 #yahrzeit

Flashback to the time my mom got me a #Yahrzeit candle for #Passover without realizing it. She just saw the Passover display at the store and bought everything lmao
#Judaism

Thursday will be the 13th anniversary of my Barbara's passing. I don't expect to mark the date other than probably shedding some tears, which I still do fairly regularly. It doesn't have to be a particular date for that.

I'm not Jewish, and I don't mean to appropriate culture. It's just that I don't know a term for that anniversary other than yahrzeit.

#grief #yahrzeit #loss #rrecovery

https://lasarina.wordpress.com/

This Monday (2/27) will mark the #yahrzeit of Leonard #Nimoy, z"l. Hard to believe he's been gone for eight years.
https://coffeeshoprabbi.com/2015/02/28/nimoy/

Praying for the forgotten dead. “Who is like You, Master of mighty deeds, and who can be compared to You? King, Who causes death and restores life, and causes deliverance to sprout forth. And You are faithful to restore the dead to life. Blessed are You, Adonai, Resurrector of the dead.” #ancestors #forgottendead #prayers #praypeace #kaddish #yahrzeit

Memorial candle, with plaque that reads, “THIS YAHRZEIT CANDLE IS LIT IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALL THOSE FOR WHOM THERE IS NO ONE TO SAY KADDISH”

Today marks the 50th Yahrzeit of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a spiritual and moral leader to American Jews during the civil rights movement. Years ago, we profiled Susannah Heschel, speaking about the continued influence of her father, and her own spiritual activism. https://momentmag.com/susannah-heschel/
#Heschel #Yahrzeit #RIP #Religion #Spirituality #Spiritual #Jewish #Judaism #CivilRights #MLK