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Inspiring stories about kaddish – from Talmudic times to the 21st century.

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Rabbi Akiva and the Orphan
The classic story to explain why a mourner says kaddish
Rabbi Yishmael and the Angel
My JetBlue Minyan
A trip to the Holy Land became a spiritual experience even before we took off.
Yisroel
Yisroel stood in the doorway, cheeks and nose bright red from the cold, snow encrusting his thick brown bangs. “My mother is still not here, and I’m frozen. Can I wait inside?”
A Kaddish Poem
Kaddish and Other Questions That Make Me Crazy
Kaddish with Oprah
During my eleven months of saying Kaddish, I ended up in various minyans from San Francisco to Halifax, but the phone call in New York was the start of what turned out to be perhaps the most interesting Kaddish experience of them all...
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