Word: yahrzeit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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, and on successive anniversaries, prayers are again offered, and Yahrzeit lamps or candles burned. Many a U. S. rabbi was shocked last week to hear that one of his fellows was bringing Kaddish into court. In Joplin, Mo. last May died Louis Bormaster, shoe merchant. To conduct the ritual prayers the family got Rabbi Harry Wolf, who had come from...
...Yahrzeit, anniversary of the death of any good Jew, a candle is lit in his honor. In synagogs and homes every Friday night candles are burned, and candles figure in many a Jewish ritual observance, particularly Chanukah, the Feast of Lights (or Maccabees which celebrate the recapture of Jerusalem by Judas Maccabaeus in 165 B.C. This year Chanukah begins Dec. 24, lasts eight days. One says, "Shalom! a very happy Chanukah!" There are parties, the children play the game of trendel with a spinning top, eat lathes (pancakes) and potato kugel, receive Chanukah gelt (gifts). One may not work...
Last week Standard Oil Co. of New Fork tied up its products with religious observance much as Clicquot Club Co. (ginger ale) tied up its bottle caps with unemployment relief. It announced that a special 2? stamp tax would be placed on all Yahrzeit lamps, and a graded tax from 1? to 10? on all ritual candles. The proceeds will go to the New York Yeshivoth and Talmud Torah funds, which maintain Jewish parochial schools and rabbinical academies in the city...