Word: kaddish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath a perpetually flickering lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel...
Fifth admonishes, "Honor thy father and mother." A young tree represents youth, its 613 leaves (in the form of the letter Yod which means God) the 613 good deeds a pious Jew must perform. In the background are the first words of the Kaddish, a prayer spoken daily for eleven months and annually thereafter for one's deceased parents...
With their garments slit, their locks tousled, an orthodox Jewish family mourns its dead by sitting shivah-in stocking feet, on rough boxes instead of chairs-during the first seven days. For eleven months after the death there is daily Kaddish, a prayer in the synagog, usually led by a son or daughter of the deceased. Some rabbis chant a routine, blanket Kaddish at the end of services, for all the congregation's dead. After eleven months the deceased is presumed to be redeemed by these prayers, to pass on from Gehenna (Hell) to Heaven. On the twelvemonth...