Rituals

Rituals that can give meaning and comfort to the Jewish Sacred Aging journey.

October 1, 2020 0

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...]

September 28, 2020 0

Yom Kippur 5781: Yizkor For COVID-19 Victims

For Yom Kippur, Chaplain Barry Pitegoff offers a Yizkor prayer for COVID-19 victims. [Read more...]

September 16, 2020 0

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...]

September 1, 2020 0

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...]

March 29, 2020 0

Prayers for a Pandemic from The Jewish Forward

The Forward has collected some new and reenvisioned prayers for the pandemic crisis. [Read more...]

October 31, 2018 0

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...]

"Counting the Omer," by Holly Hayes, from Flickr.com. Used under Creative Commons 2.0 license.

May 15, 2014 0

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...]

April 21, 2014 0

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...]

September 23, 2013 1

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...]

January 4, 2013 0

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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