yahrzeit
Annual mourning date
Yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death in the Jewish tradition, observed annually according to the Hebrew calendar.
Family members light a memorial candle that burns for twenty-four hours and may recite the Kaddish prayer: We always light a yahrzeit candle for my grandmother.
The word comes from Yiddish, meaning "year-time."
Jewish prayer quorum
- synagogueJewish house of worship
- candleWax stick with wick
- prayerAddress to deity
- siddurJewish daily worship text
Torah · mitzvah · halacha · rabbi · Hebrew · tradition · observance · lighting
Wax stick with wick
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- graveSerious and worrying
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
unveiling · plaque · cemetery · prayer · soul · afterlife · heaven · ancestor
Jewish week of mourning
- bereavementState following loss
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
mourner · grieving · condolence · sympathy · consolation · anguish · lamentation · bereaved
minyan
Jewish prayer quorum
siddur · Torah · mitzvah · halacha · rabbi · Hebrew · tradition · observance · lighting · sunset
candle
Wax stick with wick
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- graveSerious and worrying
tombstone · unveiling · plaque · cemetery · prayer · soul · afterlife · heaven · ancestor · legacy
shiva
Jewish week of mourning
- bereavementState following loss
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- lossBeing without something
sorrow · mourner · grieving · condolence · sympathy · consolation · anguish · lamentation · bereaved · heartache
annual
Occurring every year
cycle · recurrence · lunar · observance
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- mourning customsfuneral, funeral service, wake, visitation, burial
- Jewish ritualsbrit milah, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, kiddush, havdalah
- Orthodox JudaismTorah study, yeshiva, kosher, shabbat, Hasidic
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, sitting shiva, mourning, seven days
yahrzeitbirthday
Annual date of origin
bris · brit milah · birth celebration · bar mitzvah · bat mitzvah
yahrzeitsimcha
Jewish celebration or joy
celebration · jubilee · festival · joyous occasion · festivity
yahrzeitsimcha
Jewish celebration or joy
celebration of life · wedding · brit milah · kiddush · joyous occasion