Mourner's Kaddish

American  

noun

Judaism.

1. Kaddish.

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Example Sentences

A Ray Charles record crackled in the corner, and at the center of the room in an old armchair was a boy without a black mask in a white T-shirt and suspenders and thick-rimmed glasses, hunched over a siddur and muttering what Molly recognized as the mourner’s Kaddish.

From Literature

And then there are those in no danger of forgetting, for whom the names of the camps, as intoned in the final moments are as ingrained as the hypnotic babble of grief we call the Mourner’s Kaddish.

From New York Times

By the time we began the recital of the Mourner’s Kaddish, my anxiety had become dread, and the cramping and dizziness had returned with a vengeance.

From Literature

Among the many examples of the outpouring of concern, caring and hesed, roughly translated as “lovingkindness,” expressed by the entire city, he points to the headline, in Hebrew, that appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the day of one of the funerals, with the first four words of the traditional Jewish prayer known as the Mourner’s Kaddish.

From Washington Post

Mourners then come together for shiva, a seven-day period where family members receive visitors, recite the Mourner’s Kaddish as part of the daily prayer service and reminisce over the life of their loved one.

From Washington Post