{"id":47353,"date":"2019-02-22T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=47353"},"modified":"2019-02-22T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T14:26:41","slug":"kaddish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/kaddish\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaddish"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI JOSEPH H. PROUSER<\/p>\n

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Our prayers are not always answered so quickly, nor always as we wish. An exception to this principle is Mourner\u2019s Kaddish (as, too, any of the various forms of Kaddish). As soon as one says \u201cYitgadal v\u2019yitkadash <\/em>\u2013 May God\u2019s Name be magnified and sanctified,\u201d that goal is achieved. God is sanctified, and the Divine Name magnified, by the very fact of the mourner\u2019s public recitation of these words and through the congregational response: \u201cMay God\u2019s great Name be blessed\u2026.\u201d How sensitive of our tradition to assign the mourner (whose bereavement demonstrates that, alas, not all prayerful aspirations are granted) a role in which her or his prayers are, indeed, immediately fulfilled.<\/p>\n

The prayerful efforts of effective visitors to a house of mourning also enjoy a measure of immediate success. Our presence and gestures of support are concrete steps toward the healing and consolation which we seek in prayer: \u201cHa-Makom Yinachem Etchem<\/em> \u2013 May God comfort you\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the bereaved, healing can be a long process. The benefits of Kaddish are immediate.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

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