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Why do many non-Orthodox Jews come to shul regularly only after a parent's death?
It's something like that, based on my observations of my local Reform and Conservative communities. What I notice in particular with the Conservative daily minyan is that there are some regulars, some ...
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Short prayer after a vort or dvar torah
You are thinking of the famous saying of chazal (our Rabbis of blessed memory) found in Makkos 23b and famous for being mentioned at the end of Pirkei Avos:
רִבִּי חֲנַנְיָא בֶּן עֲקַשְׁיָה אוֹמֵר ...
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Why do many non-Orthodox Jews come to shul regularly only after a parent's death?
I wholly agree with Monica's excellent answer, but I would like to point out another phenomenon. Many non-Orthodox Jews go through a portion of their adult lives without giving much thought to ...
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כּרְעוּתֵהּ (with a dagesh in the כּ) or כרְעוּתֵהּ (without the dagesh) in Kaddish?
The general rule is that letters "בגד כפת" do have a dagesh when they appear in the beginning of a word, unless the word follows a word that ends with one of the vowels (אהוי), and there's a ...
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Siyum Masechta Ketana
Rabbi Yechezkel Moskowitz answers that one may make a full "Siyum" on all "Masechtos Ketanos", except for Maseches Derech Eretz (he quotes the Sefer Yoma Tava, Sha'ar 1, Page 23).
For the exception ...
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Origins of "Kaddish Yachid"
It can be found where you mentioned in Siddur Rav Amram Gaon. He also brings a barchu l'yachid on next page.
For further info and more opinions see the Darkei Moshe Ha'Aruch 59: 3
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Missing Traditional Half-Kaddish Melodies
I'm going to assume you know most of the traditional half kaddish tunes, like those on Shabbat and weekdays, Arvit on the High Holidays, as well as those after Yishtabach and before Musaf (including ...
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Is the Talmud 100% Oral Torah?
As far as the main question is concerned, the Ramban in his debate with Pablo Christiani states (in the beginning of the section entitled "על האגדות") that the corpus of the Torah can be divided into ...
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Chanuka Kaddish error after Hallel
Based on Rav Eliezer Melamed (Peninei Halacha Tefillah 23:2 fn3) where one said Kaddish Shalem after Tachanun, he quotes Ishei Yisrael 26:5 who says to skip the "Tiskabel line" when Kaddish Shalem ...
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Why is "titkabel" not in Kaddish Yatom?
See here
Citing from סדר טרוייש סימן ב:
After I explained that Tiskabel closes out Shemona Esrei, you now
understand why the Kaddish recited by a child does not contain the
line of Tiskabel and ...
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What is the connection between "sword and ... bow" (Genesis 48:22) with "prayer and ... supplication" (as rendered by Onkelos)?
The targum Yerushalmi reads, "not with my sword nor with my bow, but through my righteousness and my good works. "
and this all might be explained by the Gemara in Bava Batra 123a:
The baraita ...
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Short prayer after a vort or dvar torah
From https://outorah.org/p/4589/
The Rabbis’ Kaddish (“Kaddish D’Rabbanan”) is recited after a public lecture in the Oral Torah. There is an opinion that the primary practice is to recite this ...
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Should one recite Mourner's Kaddish between the daily Psalm and Psalm 27?
In principle you could say Kaddish on just a couple verses, but you don't usually see people stopping after every few lines of the daily Psalm to say Kaddish because the general rule* is to always ...
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Why do many non-Orthodox Jews come to shul regularly only after a parent's death?
This answer is solely based on my own personal experience with no Halachic references available.
When my sister died I took it very hard. Closure seemed impossible, because of a tangled web of ...
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Should I answer the kaddish if I'm still at the amidah?
The Shulchan Aruch says that one should not answer to kaddish or kedusha in the middle of amidah. He says that one should stop praying, listen and lechaven and that will be as though one answered.
In ...
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Is there such a thing as Kaddish Talmidim?
Perhaps you're thinking of Kaddish d'Rabbanan, whose text includes:
עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל רַבָּנָן. וְעַל תַּלְמִידֵיהוֹן וְעַל כָּל תַּלְמִידֵי תַלְמִידֵיהוֹן. וְעַל כָּל מַאן דְּעָסְקִין ...
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Keeping a photograph of the deceased when saying Kaddish
Kaddish is the way in which the Hashem's radiance, partially diminshed through the passing of the departed, is restored.
Kaddish is for the Living
Remarkably, the Mourner's Kaddish does not ...
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Why is there no Kaddish after Torah reading at mincha on a fast day?
See Magen Avrraham OC 292 SK 2
The reason is that there is nothing between the eventually (and not existing) kaddich after the third ole and the kaddich before Tefilah shmona esre. The source is in ...
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Mourning the death of an infant
On this topic, see the important article (Jewish Guidance on the Loss of a Baby or Fetus) by R Jason Weiner (senior rabbi at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles) in Hakirah vol. 23 (here). He writes
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Why Kaddish starts after burial and not death?
Well, since Kadish is said by the mourners, and they are exempt from davening, they won't be in shul to say Kadish, and may not even be allowed to say it (same way they cannot daven or bentsch.)
That ...
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When to start saying Kaddish
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Traditionally, the child or other immediate relative of the departed would be preoccupied with the burial and not expected (or even allowed) to pray until it happens -- assuming there is still ...
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Saying kaddish for a year, years after death
Nitei Gavriel Aveilus2 51:13 & 51:14 brings from the Elef L'Mateh and Shevet Sofer that one would not say past the year of death in such a case.
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לעלם ולעלמי עלמיא - (kaddish) isn't this redundant?
To reformulate my earlier comment into an answer as per the request of @ezra:
The phrasing of the kaddish here is most likely taken from דניאל ז:יח (as implied above by @Double AA)
עַד עָלְמָא, וְעַד ...
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Is the Talmud 100% Oral Torah?
The Talmud has it's basis in oral tradition, but in general it is not a direct transmission from previous generations.
Here is what the Aruch HaShulchan wrote about the Talmud. It is found in his ...
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Steps after chazaras hashatz, if the chazan doesn't continue past Ashre
The sefer “Tefilloh Kehilchoso” says that in your case, the first chazan takes his three steps backwards after the end of the repetition. He quotes as his source the next Mishna B'rura to the one you ...
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Why do many non-Orthodox Jews come to shul regularly only after a parent's death?
What Monica said in her answer is completely true. I would like to suggest another possible reason for this phenomenon. The reason is practicality. Orthodox Jews tend to live in clusters. Due to the ...
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Why does the congregation interrupt the chazzan in the middle of sentences of Kaddish?
In case this satisfies you, the Magid Meisharim discusses this in his own way.
The Beis Yosef quotes the Shiblei Haleket that since the ten prasises in Kaddish correspond to the ten commandments we ...
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What to do when you're in the middle of shemonah esrei and the chazzan began saying kadish?
You pause and listen at "Y'he sh'meh…" [and otherwise continue]. Mishna B'rura 104:26.
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How obligated is one to say Kaddish for a deceased relative?
It might be noted that Kaddish is considered to be a benefit for the neshamah of the niftar (soul of the departed) and is considered to be part of Kivud Av v'Em (under those circumstances where it ...
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