Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew

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	• Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew Anita Diamant Schocken, 1999 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew

Though I am not a religious person, I found this book to be solace after my mother's death. I have since shared it with several friends. The book offers insights into Jewish mourning traditions and rituals, but the lessons are applicable and comforting to anyone.

Recommended

This book has been a great comfort. It's written in really accessible language. While the case could be made that there are other more "authentic" treaments of the subject, Diamant's way with words eases the sting of a difficult subject: end of life issues.

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spiritual guidance

This is a wonderful book. It provides full information on Jewish death and mourning laws and customs, but also talks more about the spiritual connotations of these practices. It is a wonderful companion to Lamm's more detailed book. Unlike Lamm, she talks about the full gamut of observances from orthodox to reform for each stage of the mourning process. She provides not only liturgy but meaningful poems and discusses how people have used some of these readings for personal rituals.

Her writing is excellent and you feel like she is a loving friend guiding you through the difficult emotions of death and mourning. She anticipated many of the emotions and stages I encountered in my recent mourning. It is not depressing but hopeful, bringing you connection to the community of other Jews who have had losses.

Actually, even if you are not Jewish I think it could be a helpful guide to the stages of dying and mourning and help anyone work through the death of a loved one.

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spiritual useful

if you feel the need to mourn , or to know a way to mourn rather,
this book is effective

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Anita Diamant's knowledge, sensitivity, and clarity have made her one of the most respected writers of guides to Jewish life. In Saying Kaddish, she shows how to make Judaism's time-honored rituals into personal, meaningful sources of comfort. Diamant guides the reader through Jewish practices that attend the end of life, from the sickroom to the funeral to the week, month, and year that follow. There are chapters describing the traditional Jewish funeral and the customs of Shiva, the first week after death when mourners are comforted and cared for by community, friends, and family. She also explains the protected status of Jewish mourners, who are exempt from responsibilities of social, business, and religious life during Shloshim, the first thirty days. And she provides detailed instructions for the rituals of Yizkor and Yahrzeit, as well as chapters about caring for grieving children, mourning the death of a child, neonatal loss, suicide, and the death of non-Jewish loved ones.

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