Word: kaddish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short poems, with Mr. Corso showing a much stronger tendency towards humor in his writing than did Mr. Ginsberg. The latter, to the considerable surprise of most of the audience, which had come in search of a sideshow, was an unexpectedly "serious" poet, especially in the long prose poem, Kaddish, and in the well-known Howl with which he ended his reading...
...scored against them). At each of five inquisition points, teams had to answer a question. The questions: 1) When was the state of Israel founded? 2) Who is the President of Israel? 3 ) How many candles are there in Hanukah lights? 4) What is the difference between Kiddush and Kaddish? 5) How many keys are there on a piano...
...answers: 1) May 14, 1948; 2) Ben-Zvi; 3) nine: 4) Kiddush is a consecration of the Sabbath over wine, and Kaddish is a prayer in memory of the dead; 5) 88. Commonest error: David Ben-Gurion for Isaac...
Down to the Grave. Second most important Jewish prayer, says Bernstein, is the Kaddish, originally a hymn of praise to God, used especially in honoring the dead. The words of the Kaddish suggest that it was the basis of the Lord's Prayer: "Exalted and hallowed be the name of God throughout the world . . . May His kingdom come, His will be done...
Though it honors the dead, the Kaddish takes no attitude toward immortality. The Jews, says Rabbi Bernstein, have never agreed on what happens after death, though most of them in recent centuries have recited the Credo of Maimonides, the great 12th Century physician-philosopher who believed in the physical resurrection of the dead. "But the hearts of many stricken Jews have also echoed the lament of Job: 'As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.' It is growing harder for modern Jews to believe...