#yizkor

[girlactionfigure]

In Jewish cemeteries, you’ll rarely see flowers.

Instead, you’ll see stones—silent, simple, and deeply meaningful.

They don’t bloom. They don’t wilt.

They remain.

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[divinum-pacis]

People gather for Yizkor, a Jewish prayer service for the dead, to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, on Yom Kippur in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

[cock-holliday]

Its that time of year. I am hoping to once again attend the Rabbis for Ceasefire Yizkor for Yom Kippur. Last year’s service was moving and beautiful, and I expect a similar tone of reflection, mourning, and a commitment to not sit idly by in the face of atrocity.

Co-Hosted by a number of orgs including JVP, IfNotNow, JFREJ, RJ4J, multiple congregations and more. Register if you are interested.

Yizkor 5786/2025

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Yizkor got me feeling things again. Specifically, the fact that nobody says it for my grandfather. Is there an appropriate way for grandchildren to honor grandparents whose children are still alive but not observant?

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[queenwille]

יִזְכֹּר עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת בָּנָיו וּבְנוֹתָיו הַנֶּאֱמָנִים וְהָאַמִּיצִים,

חַיָּלֵי צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל,

וְכָל לוֹחֲמֵי הַמַּחְתָּרוֹת וַחֲטִיבוֹת הַלּוֹחֲמִים בְּמַעַרְכוֹת הָעָם,

וְאַנְשֵי קְהִלּוֹת הַמּוֹדִיעִין, הַבִּטָּחוֹן, הַמִּשְׁטָרָה וְשֵׁרוּת בָּתֵּי הַסֹּהַר,

אֲשֶׁר חֵרְפוּ נַפְשָׁם בַּמִּלְחָמָה עַל תְּקוּמַת יִשְׂרָאֵל,

וְכָל מִי שֶׁנִּרְצְחוּ בָּאָרֶץ וּמִחוּצָה לָהּ בִּידֵי מְרַצְּחִים מֵאִרְגּוּנֵי הַטֵּרוֹר.

יִזְכֹּר יִשְׂרָאֵל וְיִתְבָּרַךְ בְּזַרְעוֹ וְיֶאֱבַל עַל זִיו הָעֲלוּמִים

וְחֶמְדַּת הַגְּבוּרָה וּקְדֻשַּׁת הָרָצוֹן וּמְסִירוּת הַנֶּפֶשׁ

שֶׁל הַנִּסְפִּים בַּמַּעֲרָכָה הַכְּבֵדָה.

יִהְיוּ חַלְלֵי מַעַרְכוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל עֲטוּרֵי הַנִּצָּחוֹן

חֲתוּמִים בְּלֵב יִשְֹרָאֵל לְדֹר דֹּר.

[laineystein]

Thinking of anyone who attended or is planning to attend yizkor today 💙💙💙

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

I just saw a post that claimed Yizkor is the “arguable climax” of Yom Kippur which is just...not the case. Yom Kippur is only 1 out of 4 times a year that Yizkor is said; it’s a minor part of the service (in that it comprises a very small percentage of all time spent davening on Yom Kippur), and in many communities the custom is for people whose parents are still living to leave shul entirely for the duration of it (which is not a thing you’d do for the “climax” of the day). If anything, Neilah is the climax of Yom Kippur davening.

But then I remembered that the other days Yizkor is said are the last day of Pesach, the 2nd day of Shavuos, and Shemini Atzeres, which means that a large proportion of non-frum Jews probably actually never encounter it other than Yom Kippur (I sure never went to shul those days growing up). In that context, I guess it makes sense that someone would associate Yizkor as a Yom Kippur thing.

EDIT: See later post where I realized the person probably was actually referring to the 10 Martyrs section of the selichos in Musaf, not Yizkor, despite using that word in the post.

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Preparing for the Passover Seder in the kitchen of the Community House in Biloxi, Mississippi; 1949. x

During Passover, the final two days in the diaspora and the final day of the holiday in Israel, are celebrated as shvii shel pesach and acharon shel peseach - the seventh day of Passover and the final day of Passover.  These final days of Passover celebrate the crossing of the Red Sea into freedom and escape from Pharaoh's Armies.  It is customary for Ashkenazim to recite Yizkor in the morning of the final day of Passover, and it is also customary to stay up all night studying Torah before the final day.  Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber added four cups of wine to the meal on the final day, making it resemble a Seder, in honor of the coming Messiah.

Passover begins in 2017 on the evening of April 10th and continues until the evening of April 17th in Israel and ends on April 18th in the diaspora.