Questions tagged [kaddish]
Aramaic prayer for the sanctification of God's name; often recited by mourners
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Virtual online Minyan for daily Kaddish?
I haven't been observant in almost 20 years, but recent events make me yearn to say Kaddish for those who died on October 7th, and for those IDF soldiers that are dying now. For various reasons, and ...
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Ken Y’hi Ratzon
The general minhag (of everyone except Chabad Lubavitch Hasidism) is to say “Ken Y’hi Ratzon” when Birkat Kohanim is recited by a non-Kohen Chazzan. I believe this is because it’s not a prayer ...
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Kammatz katan in Kaddish
In the Kaddish, the words בעלמא, לעלם, ולעלמי, עלמיא are all related to the Hebrew word עולם, from which I conclude that in each of those four words, the kammatz vowel below the ע is a kammatz katan ...
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Kadesh while catching up [duplicate]
Many times while davening I will fall slightly behind and kadesh will start while I am still in middle of a paragraph. Should I answer or continue davening (or just answer and continue davening, ...
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Missing Traditional Half-Kaddish Melodies
In his article "How Music Articulates Liturgical Structure, Meaning, and Perception: The Kaddish" published in the recent volume of the Journal of Synagogue Music (vol. 47 no. 1), Dr. Boaz ...
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Hatzi Kaddish, Kedushah and Barekhu for individual
"Furthermore, in his influential siddur Seder Avodat Yisrael (Rodelheim , 1868, pp. 120-121), Rabbi Yitzhak Baer provides private prayers for those who missed Hatzi Kaddish, Barekhu and Kedushah, ...
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Saying kaddish for a distant relative when a closer one is alive but will not say kaddish
What do the sources say about saying kaddish in a situation where a non-blood relative passed away. Closer relatives are alive but are unlikely to say kaddish.
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Is there any particular reason we do Kaddish so often?
I know repetition is at the center of Judaism: we say shema and do the amida everyday, remember important events every year etc.
The question is particularly about Kaddish, is there any reason we ...
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Does a convert say kaddish for his parents when they pass? [duplicate]
Does a convert say kaddish for his parents when they pass? If yes is this limited to a Jewish parent (father) or does this include a non Jewish parent? If it does include a non-Jewish parent would it ...
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Kaddish Nusach Ashkenaz person waits for additions of Nusach Edos Hamizrach
A synagogue follows Nusach Ashkenaz (NA). For Kaddish Yosom, there are people who would normally daven Nusach Edos Hamizrach (NEM). The NA people stop their kaddish where necessary to let the NEM ...
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Listening to the responses to kaddish before resuming
You are saying Kaddish (either as shaliach tzibbur, or because your are chayiv).
You come to "v'imru amen", and the minyan responds "y'hei shmei rabbah...".
When do you say your ...
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If Shechina never left the kotel hamaravi can one male Jew say kaddish alone standing in front of the kotel?
If the Shechina never left the kotel hamaravi and if the reason we need a minyan of 10 frum Jewish men to say kaddish is for the Shechina to be present: Why can't a Jew say kaddish alone standing in ...
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לעלם ולעלמי עלמיא - (kaddish) isn't this redundant?
The Artscroll interlinear Siddur translates the words לעלם ולעלמי עלמיא - forever and for all eternity.
Don't "forever" and "for eternity" mean the same thing? What is the simple ...
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Short prayer after a vort or dvar torah
I've recently moved to a new area and the Shul that I now attend will often give a vort at the end of Shacharit and Maariv before allowing mourners to say another Kaddish. I've never heard it before ...
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Why doesn't Kaddish include Hashem's name?
Why doesn't Kaddish, a prayer for the sanctification of God's name, not include Hashem's name?
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Is a second kaddish recited on Yom Tob when there is only 1 Sefer Torah in the shul?
In a shul that has only 1 sefer Torah, is a second Kaddish recited on Yom Tob when finishing reading the second Torah portion for the day?
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Saying kaddish for a year, years after death
Someone found out that their grandmother, who passed away 7 years ago, didn't have anyone that said kaddish for her for the year after her passing. Is there any inyun now to say kaddish for a year (...
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Origin of Kaddish Nusach ויצמח פורקניה ויקרב משיחיה
What is the halachic reasoning for adding/deleting this line to the Kaddish? Is it unique to just Nusach Sefard and Edot HaMizrach? It seems to also be near universal amongst Dati Leumi minyanim in ...
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Invalidating a minyan
Hypothetical case --
I am within my year of saying kaddish and am on a business trip. I am in a very small and unfamiliar shul waiting for a minyan and in walks someone from my town who has been ...
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Why K"Yatom and not K"Derobonnon?
In my Artscroll Siddur Yitzchak Yair Hashalem, after the section called Vayiten L'cha there is a small piece of instruction:
בכמה קהילות אמרים כאן קדיש יתום
In some congregations [people] say here ...
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When to start saying Kaddish
In terms of halacha and minhag, when can one start saying kaddish for someone who has passed. Only after the burial?
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To which tzadik was revealed the melodies of the Beis Hamikdash
I recall hearing that a certain tzadik - I think it was the Maharal - was revealed to him the tunes from the Beis Hamikdash and we now use these tunes for Rosh Hashanah such as the tune for Yisgadal.
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Kaddish before Haftarah on Tish'ah beAv Morning
R. Akiva Eger (on Shulchan Aruch 559:3) cogently argues that one should never recite kaddish between maftir and haftarah, as such an interruption would mean that one does not fulfill the requirement ...
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Correct pronunciation of Kaddish
The opening two words of Kaddish begin with the words:
יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ
Both the gimmel and the dalet of 'Yisgadal' carry a dagesh as does the dalet in 'veyiskadash' - normally a function ...
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What does וְיַמְלִיךְ מַלְכוּתֵהּ in Kaddish mean?
There are some versions that have it with "Vikarev Mishichei" following the "Viyamlich Malchuse", and that seems to mean that the Kaddish is a prayer for Moshiach(?)
myJewishLearning.com it has ...
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Origins of "Kaddish Yachid"
I was recently introduced to the concept of a "Kaddish Yachid," attributed to Rav Amram Gaon. A few fairly unreliable sources online discuss it as some form of a stand-in for when Kaddish can't be ...
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To say Kaddish if known the person has gone to Gan Eden
This story https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1819358/tzaddik-of-bnei-brak-appears-in-dream-to-fellow-kovno-ghetto-survivor-im-already-in-gan-eden.html
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Ashkenazic vs Sephardic Kaddish
1 - The Sephardic Kaddish has this extra line near the beginning:
וְיַצְמַח פֻּרְקָנֵהּ וִיקָרֵב מְשִׁיחֵהּ --
May His salvation blossom and His Messiah be near.
The Ashkenazic Kaddish omits ...
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Kaddish during Aseres Yimei Teshuvah: why "לעילא [ו]לעילא" instead of "לעילא"?
During the Aseres Yimei Teshuvah, when Kaddish is recited we say "לעילא [ו]לעילא" instead of the usual "לעילא."
Why is this so? What's the reason for this practice and where did it originate?
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Is it better to answer kaddish or use that time to catch up?
You've fallen behind because you can't keep up with congregation's prayer speed and the chazzan begins to say kaddish. Which option is preferable?
A. Pause your own prayer, answer kaddish completely, ...
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Saying Kaddish in a smelly place
A funeral of my distant relative was held at Ofra cemetery (in Israel) which is close to the local cowsheds (probably on purpose). The smell was hardly bearable but I needed to say Kaddish (Yatom), as ...
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What is the minimum of learning to say Kaddish d’Rabanan?
What is the minimum amount of study one has to learn or hear in order to say Kaddish d’rabanan? Is there a certain Halacha which states how much or what is the minimum one needs to learn?
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Why Kaddish starts after burial and not death?
As far as I know, all Avelus starts with the burial, not with the actual death.
Particularly, why saying Kaddish does not start with the moment of death? And is it just a general Minhag or there are ...
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Meaning of the last sentence of the kaddish?
The last sentence of the kaddish - "עושה שלום במרומיו" -refers to Gd making peace on high.
What does that mean? Is peace considered the opposite of chaos? Could someone restate the last sentence ...
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Why Kaddish for a parent is said for eleven months?
This answer cites a source which explains that Kaddish for a parent is customarily not said for 12 months so as not to imply a parent's status as that of "wicked."
Not wanting to label a parent ...
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Joining in with the chazzan in kaddish
In various shuls I have attended, if the chazan sings kaddish (like the chatzi-kaddish before Ma'ariv Amida on Yom Tov nights) many people in the shul sing along with the kaddish. Is this permitted?
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Kaddish: Men Before Women
Someone recently told me the Chida writes someone saying kaddish for a father has precedence before someone saying kaddish for a mother. Where is this Chida and what is the reasoning?
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Source for Kaddish
I think this may be a very common question (but not for me). Can someone please tell me how did the text of Kaddish first compiled?
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Kaddish for children
I heard some rabbanim say that if a baby or child is over the age of 30 days, one should say kaddish for him for a year (11 months) while I have heard others say that 11 months is only for a parent ...
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Gravesite Kaddish
I have noticed at funerals that some people face the grave while saying Kaddish and at others face a different direction.
Is there a reason for it for both ways?
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Standing for kaddish
Most of the siddurim by Chacham Ovadia Yosef זצ"ל say to stand at the khatzi kaddish of Shabbat Arvit right before Kryat Shema. I have heard that this minhag is from the Ben Ish Chai (I don't exactly ...
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To say Kaddish at the cemetery after burial, do the mourners count as part of the minyan?
I understand that onenim cannot be counted as part of the minyan. Thus, at the cemetery, when saying the Kaddish can they be counted as part of the minyan or do we need 10 others besides them?
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Kaddish not being said correctly
Should one respond to a Kaddish that a mourner is not pronouncing the words properly?
I don’t know if this question has been asked before, but I found something similar - Is there such a thing as a ...
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Mourning the death of an infant
If an infant only survives for one day Rachmana litzlan, do the parents have to sit shiva or say kaddish?
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Why were not all petitionary prayers eliminated on Shabbat? [duplicate]
Jewish teaching is that Shabbat services are for thanks and praise, not for petition [see Berachot Yerushalmi]. That's why the rabbis cut out the middle 13 blessings of the daily Amidah.
But we ...
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Kaddish after 'Aleinu?
The Rem"a notes that קדיש יתום should be recited after 'Aleinu (O"Ch 132:[סע׳ ?]), however it appears that most authorities require at least three pesukim to precede ק"י (per a comment Double AA once ...
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Why does chabad say "Yisbareich" instead of "yisbarach"?
Why according to the Nusach Ari (siddur "Tehilat Hashem") does it say "yisbareich" instead of "yisbarach" in Kaddish?
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Inconsistent (?) use of B'rachamav in Kaddish
This question deals with the origin of the inclusion of "b'rachamav" in the Kaddish Derabonon/Yatom, and this site gives more history on it.
I noticed that the inclusion of the word "b'rachamav" ...
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Is there a prohibition to say Kaddish after a pet (an animal)?
Is there a prohibition to say kaddish for a just died pet (yes, an animal)?
This is not similar to this, which asks if there is a prayer for a dying pet, my question is if there is a prohibition to ...
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Does Kaddish for a Yahrzeit follow the day or the date?
Assuming a community where all who are eligible to say kaddish say it together:
The anniversary of a relative's passing is on the 16th of Av which happens to fall out on Shabbat, which begins at 7:59....
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