A just-released book on Jewish mourning practices presents key blessings and explanations of customs in Portuguese.

Published in Brazil and written by Rabbi Shamai Ende, director of the Chabad House in S. Paulo’s S. Andre neighborhood and dean of the local Lubavitch yeshiva, Chelkat Elimelech features a side-by-side Hebrew to Portuguese translation of important blessings and an easy-to-read commentary of mourning customs according to the Chabad-Lubavitch tradition.

Ende dedicated the book in memory of his father, Rabbi Elimelech Ende, who died after being shot outside his S. Paulo home six years ago. …