2025-01-17
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Somewhere when we weren't looking.
It's like busyness became a way of life.
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Auf shopifypunktee Radio I'm Michael Goldfarb and this is the documentary Heart and Soul from the BBC World Service.
The opening words of the Jewish prayer the Kaddish.
Our prayer for the dead in an ancient recording of counter Jacob Koussevitzky, who used to officiate at a synagogue which no longer exists, a 10 minute walk from my home in North London.
I've said these words since I was a boy going to Hebrew school and as I've grown older, said it for my grandparents and my parents and sadly, friends who died too young.
But like many religious rituals, I learned Kaddish by rote, without a full understanding of why we Jews make this the centerpiece of our mourning.
Kaddish is a very important prayer.
It's the signature expression of Jewishness.
Kaddish has power to us because of its performance rather than its cognitive meanings.
That cognitive meaning can be confusing.
Kaddish is a prayer of mourning, but doesn't mention death.
So I decided to find out more from First, Rabbi Herschel Gluck Kaddish is.
A very important prayer.