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Nearly one year ago, a gunman killed 11 Jews at prayer on a Shabbat morning at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Jewish liturgy has traditional prayers for individual and communal mourning appropriate to this anniversary. But as the Pittsburgh Jewish community continues to figure out how to move forward and as the larger Jewish community contemplates this and other synagogue shootings in the past calendar year, we offer a moving, contemporary prayer written specifically for this moment.
The most significant Jewish prayer for remembering those who have died is the Mourner's Kaddish. Learn all the details about what it means, who recites it, when it is said, and for whom it is said.
Some of us are in mourning for those we have loved intimately. Others among us are shocked and grieved at the deaths of those we never knew. Jewish tradition has an accumulated wealth of resources for comfort from traditional texts to poems to contemporary books.
Prayer has been the foundation of Jewish ritual and practice for thousands of years, but you may still wonder how and why to say the prayers in the canon. At My Jewish Learning, we invite you to explore the deeper side of prayer. Each week we'll share a unique exploration of a particular Jewish prayer, plus offer background materials and more to enhance your understanding. In the meantime, you can explore all of MJL's prayer resources here.
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