INTRODUCTION TO YIZKOR There is a special kind of quietness at this holy moment. Even though the sanctuary is full, it is not the quiet of emptiness. It is, rather, the quiet of fullness. It is the fullness of so many hearts, each one carrying a name or many names. It is the quietness of the fullness of burden. The burden and special feeling of memory. All of us here have that feeling. A mother. A father. A spouse. A child taken too soon. A suicide or a victim of a crime. A loved parent or an abusive one whose memory challenges us to find something holy in it. There is the friend who was young and unfinished and still becoming. Each of us holds someone — holds them the only way we can now — in memory. And so we come together, on this most sacred day of the year to do something quietly radical: We remember. We tend to think of memory as something passive. A photograph that fades. In the words of the song ‘The Green Fields of France,’ which is a reflection on a young man’s death in World War 1, there is a poignant verse that says, Are you a stranger without even a name Enclosed in forever, behind a glass frame? In an old photograph, torn, battered and stained And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame But though for too many there is no one to say Kaddish for them, today, now, we sense that our loved ones are not forever enclosed behind a glass frame. What we may have thought was sealed is open again through the magic of memory. The Hebrew root of memory — zachar — appears in our tradition not as something received, but as something done. Zachor. Remember. It is a verb. A command. An act of will. To remember, in our tradition, is not passive. It isn’t something that we just gloss over in sense of obligation on the day of Yahrtzeit. Memory is to reach across the silence and say: you are not gone. You are here. You are with me. You matter still. I still hear you. Feel you. Sense your presence. In this way, memory is not about the past at all. It is an act of love in the present. Let us remember….
Rabbi Cy Stanway 2
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IN MEMORIAM We record with profound sorrow the passing of these members and loved ones of our synagogue family during the past year.* Harry Adwar Goldie Allan Eva Rose Azrolan Adele Becker Barbara Berman Arlene Beverly Block Marilyn Brodsky Carol Cohen List James Davidson Carol Dorf Irvin Eberlin Enrique Ergas Sylvia Goldstein Madeline Goodman Ronald Gorin Edward H. Greenberg Harry Abraham Holzwasser Miriam Horn Jose Iglesias Suzanne Jacobowitz Jerome Jassenoff Joan Kamin Steven Kanowitz Stanley Levine Jeffrey Levitt Edwin Lurie George Magee Marilyn Manzoli Peter Port Carol Porwich Craig Prandini Lila Rosenblatt Neil Stephen Schneider Kitty Seidenberg Howard Seidenberg
Harriet Semon Martin Sheer Gerald Silver Howard Silvestri Jordan Sull Sheldon Swaye *Listing includes loved ones who passed away in 5786 before 5 Elul.
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Beinin, Liza & Gregg Richard Smook
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MEDITATION UPON KINDLING THE YAHRZEIT LIGHT I give thanks for the blessing of life, of companionship, and of memory. Though my loved one is beyond my sight, I do not despair, for I sense my beloved in my heart as a living presence.
PSALM 23 ַיַ ְנְ � ֵֽֽחִנִ י ְְב ַַמְעְ ְּגּ ֵלֵ י �ֶֽצ ֶֶֽדק,ׁשֹוֵבב ֵ ְ ַנַ ְפְִׁשׁ י ְי. ַעַ ל ֵֵמי ְמְֻנֻ חֹות ְיְַנַ ֲֲהֵֽל� ִֽנִ י, ִּבְּנְ אֹות ֶּדֶּׁשׁ א ַיַ ְְר ִּּביֵצֵ ִנִ י.ְיְָיָ ֹר ִִֹעי ֹל ֹא ֶֶאְחְ ָָסר .ּוִמְׁשַׁעַ ְנְ � ֶּֽֽתָך ֵֽה� ֽ ָּמּה ְיְַנַ ֲֲחֻֽמ� ֽ ִנִ י ִ ִׁשׁ ְְב ְְטָך, ִּכּ י ַַאָּתּה ִִעָּמ ִִּדי, ֹל ֹא ִִא ָיָרא ָָרע, ַּגּ ם ִּכּ י ֵֵאֵלֵ ְך ְּּבֵגֵ יא ַצַ ְלְָֽמ� ֽ ֶוֶ ת.ְׁשֽׁמֹו ֽ ְלְַֽמ� ֽ ַַען , ַַאְך טֹוב ָוָ ֶֶח ֶֶסד ִיִ ְר ְְּּדפּוִנִ י ׇּכּל ְֵיְֵמי ַַחָּיּ י.ּכֹוִסי ְרְָוָ ָֽי� ֽה ִ ,�ֶׁמן ֹרֹאִׁשׁ י ֶ ִּדַּּֽׁש�ְׁנְָּתּ ַַבֶּֽׁש,ֻׁשְׁלְָחן ֶנֶ ֶגֶ ד ֹצְֹר ְָָרי ָ ְלְָפַנַ י ָ ַּתֲּעֲ ֹרְֹך .ְלְֹֽא� ֶֶרְך ָיָ ִִמים ֽ ְָוְַׁשׁ ְבְִּתּ י ְּּב ֵֵבית ְיְָי Mizmor l’David. Adonai ro-I lo echsar. Bin’ot desheh yarbitzeini, al mei m’nuchot y’nahaleni. Nafshi y’shoveiv, yancheini b’maglei tzedek l’maan sh’mo. Gam ki eilech b’gei tzalmavet lo ira ra, ki ata imadi. Shivt’cha u-mishantecha heima y’nachamuni. Ta-aroch l’fanai Shulchan neged tzor’rai, dishanta va-shemen roshi kos r’vaya. Ach tov vachesed yird’funi kol y’mei chayai, v’shavti b’veit Adonai l’orech yamim.
A Psalm of David
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. God makes me to lie down in green pastures; God leads me beside the still waters. God restores my soul; O God, You guide me in straight paths for Your name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. As this light burns pure and clear, so may the blessed memory of the goodness of my dear loved one, illumine my soul.
The light is kindled.
.ִזִ ְכְרֹונֹו (ִזִ ְכְרֹוָנָ ה) ִלִ ְב ְָָרָכָ ה
Zichrono (Zichrona) liv’ra-cha May his (her) memory be for a blessing.
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EL MALEI RACHAMIM In Memory of a Loved One
ְּּב ַַמֲעֲ לֹות ְקְדֹוִׁשׁ ים,ַּכְּנְֵפי ַַהְּׁשִׁכִ יָנָ ה ֵ ְמְנּוָחה ְנְכֹוָנָ ה ַּֽת� ֽ ַַחת ָ ַַהְמְֵצֵ א,רֹוִמים ִ ַּבְּּמ ּ ֵֵאל ָָמֵלֵ א ַַר ֲֲח ִִמים ׁשֹוֵכֵ ן /(ֶׁשָׁהַלַ ְך ְלְ עֹוָלָ מֹו ָ _______ )בת/זֹוַהר ָָה ָָרִֽק� ֽ ַיַע ַַמ ְִזְִה ִיִרים ֶֶאת ִנִ ְׁשׁ ַַמת _______ (בן ַ ְּהֹוִרים ְּכ ִ ּוְט )ַהְסְִּתּ יֶֽר� ֽ ָָה/הּו ַ ֽ �(ַהְסְִּתּ יֵֽר ַ ַּבַּעַ ל ָָה ַַר ֲֲח ִִמים, ָָאָנָ א.)ְמְנּוָח ָָתּה/תֹו ָ (ְמְנּוָח ָ ֶׁשָׁהַלַ ָכָ ה ְלְ עֹוָלָ ָָמּה) ְּּבַגַ ן ֵֽע� ֽ ֶֶדן ְּּת ֵֵהא ָ ,)ַנַ ֲֲחָלָ ָָתּה/ ְיְָיָ הּוא (ַנַ ֲֲחָלָ תֹו,)ְׁשָׁמ ָָתּה ָ ִִנ/ְׁשָׁמתֹו ָ ִ ְוְִיִ ְצְֹרֹר ִּבְּצְרֹור ַַה ַַחִּיּ ים ֶֶאת (ִנ,ְּּב ֵֵס ֶֶתר ְּכּ ָנָ ֶֶפיָך ְלְ עֹוָלָ ִִמים .ֹאַמר ָָא ֵֵמן ַ ְוְֹנ,)ְׁשָּׁכָּבּה ָ ִמ/ְׁשָּׁכּבֹו ִ (ִמ ִ נּוַח) ְּּבָׁשׁלֹום ַעַ ל ַ ְוְָת/ ָ נּוַח ַ ָ(ְוְָי El malei rachamim shochein bam’romim, hamtzei m’nuchah n’chonah tachat kanfei haSh’chinah, b’ma’alot k’doshim ut’horim k’zohar harakia mazhirim et nishmat ______ (ben/bat) ______ (shehalach l’olamo/shehal’chah l’olamah) b’gan eiden t’hei (m’nuchato/ m’nuchatah). Ana, ba’al harachamim (hastireihu/hastireiha) b’seiter k’nafecha l’olamim, utz’ror bitz’ror hachayim et (nishmato/nishmatah), Adonai hu (nachalato/nachalatah) (v’yanuach/v’tanuach) bashalom al (mishkavo/mishkavah), v’nomar: amen. O GOD, exalted and full of compassion, grant perfect peace in Your sheltering Presence, among the holy and pure, to the soul of _______, who has gone to his/her eternal home. Master of mercy, we beseech You, remember all the worthy and righteous deeds that he/she performed in the land of the living. May his/her soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life. You, O GOD, are now his/her portion and sure inheritance. May he/she rest in peace. And let us say: Amen.
THE MEANING OF KADDISH The Kaddish Prayer so warmly, so inexorably, woven into the tapestry of mourning is essentially not a prayer for our departed. It is a prayer in praise of God. Not one word of the Aramaic, in which it is written, has even the slightest connection with cessation of life. Having its origins in the days of the great assemblies of Rabbis, the creators of the Mishna and Talmud, the prayer was originally recited at the conclusion of the study of a portion of sacred writing. Gradually, the practice developed of reciting the Kaddish at the conclusion of a great scholar’s life as he completed “his own book of life with its sacred teachings.” Soon, however, the alchemy of equality worked its leaven into this practice so that by the Tenth Century it became the custom to recite the Kaddish at the termination of all persons’ lives. No experience in Jewish life today equals the emotional magnetism of the duty to recite Kaddish for a lost member of the family. The sentimental associations strike deep and meaningful roots and reflect Judaism’s sage counsel regarding death and immortality. As we praise God in life, for life, so do we praise God in life for death, the necessary complement of life. It is not merely that man has a soul, man is a soul. Immortality is not a place, it is an imperishable state of being. The real is spiritual and the spiritual is real. At the very moment when what is most difficult is to thank God, Judaism says extol His name, sing of His wonderful ways, thank Him for the privilege of sharing a life. At a time when one’s faith in God is most challenged, the Kaddish says to us: reaffirm your faith in Him, in your world, and in your ability to see beyond the day’s pain.
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“Magnified and sanctified be His name…” “May the source of peace send peace to all who mourn and comfort all the bereaved among us.”
MOURNER’S KADDISH ,ְׁשֵׁמּה ַַרָּבּ א ֵ ְתְַקַּדּ ׁש ַ ִִיִ ְתְַּגַּּדּל ְוְִי .עּוֵתּה ֵ ְלְָמא ִּדּ י ְב ְָָרא ִכִ ְְר ָ ְּּב ָָע ְלְכּוֵתּה ְּּב ַַחֵּיּ יכון ֵ ְוְַיַ ְמְִלִ יְך ַַמ ,יוֵמיכון ֵ ְּוְב ,ּוְב ְַַחֵּיּ י ְדְ ָכָ ל ֵּבּ ית ִיִ ְׂש ָָׂר ֵֵאל .ַּבֲּעָגָ ָלָ א ִּוִבְזְ ַַמן ָָק ִִריב ֲ . ָָא ֵֵמן:ְִוְִאְמְרּו
Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba, B’alma div’ra chiruteih v’yamlich malchutei, b’chayeichon uv’yomeichon. uv’chayei d’chol beit Yisrael — ba’agala uviz’man kariv; v’imru: Amen.
ְמְָב ַַרְך ָ ְׁשֵׁמּה ַַרָּבּ א ֵ ְֵיְֵהא .ְלְֵמי ָָעְלְ ַַמָּיּ א ֵ ּוְלְָע ָ ְלְָעַלַ ם ָ ְתְָּבַּרְך ְוְִיִ ְׁשַּׁתַּּבּח ְוְִיִ ְתְ ָּפ ַַּאר ַ ִִי ְתְַהָּדּר ַ ְִתְרוַמם ְוְִיִ ְתְַנַ ּשא ְוְִי ַ ְִוְִי ְׁשֵׁמּה ֵ ְתְַהָּלּל ַ ְִתְַעֶּלּה ְוְִי ַ ְִוְִי , ְּּב ִִריְך הּוא,ְּד ֻֻקְדְָׁשׁ א ּ ,ְלְֵעָּלּ א ּוְלְ ֵֵעָּלּ א ִִמֶּכּ ל ִּּב ְְרָכָ ָָתא ְוְִׁשׁ ָיָר ָָתא ֵ ,ֻּתְּׁשְּׁב ָָח ָָתא ְוְֶנֶ ֱֱח ָָמ ָָתא ּ ,ְלְָמא ָ ַָּדֲּא ִִמ ָיָרן ְּּבָע ֲ . ָָא ֵֵמן:ְִוְִאְמְרּו
Y’hei sh’mei raba m’varach l’alam ul’almei almaya. Yitbarach v’yishtabach, v’yitpaar v’yitromam v’yitnasei v’yit’hadar v’yitaleh v’yit’halal sh’mei d’Kud’sha — B’rich Hu — l’eila ul’eila mikol birchata v’shirata, tushb’chata v’nechemata da’amiran b’alma; v’imru: Amen.
,ְֵיְֵהא ְׁשָׁלָ ָָמא ַַרָּבּ א ִִמן ְׁשׁ ַַמָּיּ א .ְַוְַחִּיּ ים ָָעֵלֵ ינּו ְַוְַעל ָּכּל ִיִ ְׂש ָָׂר ֵֵאל . ָָא ֵֵמן:ְִוְִאְמְרּו
Y’hei sh’lama raba min sh’maya, v’chayim aleinu v’al kol Yisrael; v’imru: Amen.
ְּמְרֹוָמיו ָ ֹעֶֹׂשׂח ָּׁשׁלום ִּב הּוא ַיַ ֲֲעֶׂשׂה ָׁשׁלֹום ָעָ ֵלֵ ינּו .ְוְַעַ ל ָּכּל ִיִ ְׂש ָָׂר ֵֵאל . ָָא ֵֵמן:ְִוְִאְמְרּו
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May God’s great name come to be magnified and sanctified in the world God brought into being. May God’s majestic reign prevail soon in your lives, in your days, and in the life of the whole House of Israel; and let us say: Amen. May God’s great name be blessed to the end of time. May God’s holy name come to be blessed, acclaimed, and glorified; revered, raised, and beautified; honored and praised. Blessed is the One who is entirely beyond all the blessings and hymns, all the praises and words of comfort that we speak in the world; and let us say: Amen. Let perfect peace abound; let there be abundant life for us and for all Israel. May the One who makes peace in the high heavens make peace for us, all Israel, and all who dwell on earth; and let us say: Amen. May the Source of peace bestow peace on all who mourn, and may we be a source of comfort to all who are bereaved. Amen.
YIZKOR 5787 (2026-2027) Yizkor will be observed on the following dates in the coming year: Yom Kippur ................................................................................................... Monday, September 21, 2026 Atzeret/Simchat Torah ............................................................................. Saturday, October 3, 2026 Seventh Day of Pesach ...................................................................................... Wednesday, April 28, 2027 Shavuot ........................................................................................................................ Friday, June 11, 2027 WWW.CBIBOCA.ORG
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO CONGREGATION B’NAI ISRAEL There are many meaningful opportunities to honor the memory of your loved ones at our Synagogue. Memorial plaques, endowments, scholarships, capital gifts, fine arts, and educational programs are among the possibilities available at Congregation B’nai Israel. For further information, please contact Elyse Kaplan, Development Coordinator at 561.593.4639 or elyse.kaplan@cbiboca.org.