"Only after [my father's] passing did something unexpected happen. Since becoming much more observant and taking on the responsibility of saying #Kaddish every day, I’ve begun to sense a relationship with him that feels more real, more intimate, and more meaningful than anything we shared while he was alive. Feeling that connection grow through an act meant to elevate him led me to ask the question: Why be elevated at all? If he lived a life of doing good, shouldn’t he already be where he needs to be? Where, quite frankly, he deserves to be? The short answer, it turns out, is not exactly.

What I’ve learned is that in #Judaism, the soul does not simply “arrive” at a station marked Olam Ha’Bah and stop there.

“#Tzaddikim ein lahem menuchah lo ba’olam hazeh v’lo ba’olam haba”—“The righteous have no rest, not in this world nor in the next.” (#Berachos 64a)

The #Ramban (Shaar HaGemul) and the #Zohar (II:150b) echo this idea..."

https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/386014/kaddish-and-the-relationship-i-never-expected/

Women's League for Conservative Judaism has a regular online prayer service for saying Kaddish and Mishaberach.

View on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WLCJ1

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #JewishWomen #Tefilah #Kaddish #Mishaberach

Today is my #memoir's 4th birthday. It wasn't until I wrote the preface that I realized writing the #book was my way of sitting #shiva & saying #kaddish for my father who died of early-onset #Alzheimer's. Dr. Bruce Miller, #neurologist @ #UCSF, sat shiva w/me. I will be eternally grateful.

Acknowledging that I'll never recover from how my father died has strangely liberated me to remember him (w/ and w/o the disease- I had forgotten the latter) & help others.

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12605/finding-right-words

#EndAlz

Raddish

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If you need an online place to say Kaddish for your loved ones, join the Nechamah Minyan.

Email to register: https://aleph.org/civicrm/mailing/url/?u=16448&qid=6297817

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Kaddish #Jewish #Judaism #Minyan

Wanting to mourn/needing to resist:

"Political grief . . . reflects the feeling that your worldview or political beliefs — what we think is right vs. wrong, or morally valid — is under attack." An individual "may be mourning potential losses of [their] own rights and economic stability, as well as worried about the impact it might have on reproductive rights and public health."

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/27/surviving-political-grief-youre-not-alone-and-there-is-a-path-forward/

#Kaddish
#USPol

Wanting to mourn/needing to resist:

"Political grief . . . reflects the feeling that your worldview or political beliefs — what we think is right vs. wrong, or morally valid — is under attack." An individual "may be mourning potential losses of [their] own rights and economic stability, as well as worried about the impact it might have on reproductive rights and public health."

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/27/surviving-political-grief-youre-not-alone-and-there-is-a-path-forward/

#Kaddish
#USPol