The Tanka That Kaddish Built
Books and articles
abound by outsider Jews
about The Kaddish
and their year of saying it.
Insiders? Busy. Quiet.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 9:10 AM
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4 Comments:
Interesting, and in many ways so true.
Thanks. Your presence and commenting here means a lot to me, Pearl. When I recently heard Howie Mandel in a live, long interview one of the things he spoke about was saying kaddish for his father. He put it in his contract that year that he needed a minyan guaranteed wherever he was and reports he never missed a day. And yet..
BTW - The title references the secular author of a surprise hit Kaddish book who calls his beautiful home this: The House That Kaddish Built.
Have you heard of this book "Living Kaddish" by Rabbi Gedalia Zweig? I know Gedalia -- he lives in Toronto -- and this book is an anthology of the contributors' kaddish stories. Someone bought me the book the week I sat shiva for my father.
There's a most interesting story in the book, which I believe also appeared on the www.aish.com site, written by Simcha Jakubovici, a filmmaker, about his desire to forego going on the Oprah show because he needed to say Kaddish. But things worked out in the end.
Here is the link to the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Kaddish-Incredible-inspiring-stories/dp/1568714475
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