Simchat Chochmah: A Ritual to Celebrate Aging
New Jewish Sacred Aging contributing writer Rabbi Cheryl Weiner describes a new prospective ritual to honor the wisdom that comes with aging. [Read more...]
Rituals
Rituals that can give meaning and comfort to the Jewish Sacred Aging journey.
Yom Kippur 5781: Yizkor For COVID-19 Victims
For Yom Kippur, Chaplain Barry Pitegoff offers a Yizkor prayer for COVID-19 victims. [Read more...]
Saying Kaddish at Home — A Brief Meditation and Memorial Prayer
Rabbi Richard F. Address, director of JewishSacredAging.com offers a virtual memorial service, El Molei Rachamim and the Mourner's Kaddish. [Read more...]
Return. 30 Days of Reflection: Your guided workbook and soul-journey for the High Holy Day season.
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman offers a free workbook for reflection during Elul, the month preceding the Jewish High Holy Days. [Read more...]
Prayers for a Pandemic from The Jewish Forward
The Forward has collected some new and reenvisioned prayers for the pandemic crisis. [Read more...]
Guest Essay: Taharot in Pittsburgh
Editor’s Note: Alden Solovy writes the “To Bend Light” blog, where this essay originally appeared. He gave Jewish Sacred Aging permission to reprint it [Read more...]
Rabbi Address’s Mid-Month Message: MAKING SURE IT COUNTS: The OMER and us.
In Jewish tradition, this period between Passover and the festival of Shavuot is referred to as the “omer”. This reflects back to Torah and the charge to take a [Read more...]
Rabbi Jonathan Kendall: Empty Chairs
A Pesach anecdote: when I became the Senior Rabbi at a large Miami congregation, among my many meetings with the Founding Rabbi Emeritus, the issue of the community Seder [Read more...]
Memories of my Mom and Dad — Yizkor 2013
Our Jewish calendar provides us with time to remember those we have loved. On their Yarzheits, or anniversary of passing, our thoughts turn to our mothers or fathers, our [Read more...]
Bubbe and me
Have I told you the story about my Bubbe [Yiddish, grandmother] coming to my son’s Bar Mitzvah but she was already dead? This is a true story that if I had not been there [Read more...]
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