Jewish mourning gives grief a shape — shiva, shloshim, the year, the daily Kaddish.
Everything below is drawn from the classical Jewish sources and cited to its origin.
Reflections on Jewish Mourning
- El Malei Rachamim: The Prayer for the Soul of the Departed
- Finding the Yahrzeit Date: Reading the Hebrew Calendar for a Death
- How Long You Sit Shiva: The Seven Days and Where They Begin and End
- How to Calculate a Yahrzeit Date: Finding the Hebrew Anniversary of a Death
- How to Pronounce Yahrzeit, and What the Yiddish Word Carries
- Is Shiva Like a Wake? How Jewish Mourning Differs from What You Know
- Kriah: The Torn Garment and the Black Ribbon of Mourning
- Mourner''s Kaddish: The Prayer That Never Mentions Death
- Nichum Aveilim: How to Comfort a Jewish Mourner
- Saying Kaddish for a Parent: The Eleven Months
- Shloshim: The First Thirty Days After a Loss
- The Seven Days of Shiva: What the Week Actually Covers
- The Unveiling: Setting the Stone and Marking the First Year
- The Year of Mourning: Walking Through Avelut
- What You Actually Do During Shiva: A Mourner's Practical and Spiritual Guide
- What to Do When Someone You Know Is Sitting Shiva
- What to Do on a Yahrzeit: Honoring a Loved One on the Anniversary of Their Death
- What to Say on a Yahrzeit: Prayers, Psalms, and Words at the Grave
- What to Say to Someone Sitting Shiva When You Don't Know What to Say
- What to Say to Someone on a Yahrzeit: Words for the Anniversary of Grief
- When to Light the Yahrzeit Candle: Timing the Flame of Remembrance
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