Shalom. This video is not only going to try and help to teach people how to say the Mourner’s Kaddish. The Mourner’s Kaddish is the main prayer that we recite when we are trying to honor the memory of a loved one, friend or relative who has passed away. We say it at least three times a day for the first month for all immediate relatives except the parent for whom we say it 11 months. But, I often find more and more people do not know how to say it. So find yourself a copy of it, of the Mourner’s Kaddish. You can find it in any prayer book. So actually the same thing as the full Kaddish except it is missing one line towards the bottom which begins with Tit’Kabel. They explained it at other tapes, there are five different kinds of Kaddish and Judaism but this is certainly an important one to know.
Also, you may find a prayer book which it has a transliterated saying Yit'gadal v'yit'kadash. In that, it has to do with how we pronounce the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Ashkenazim pronounce it with a tav in the middle as an S sound and start them either with a tav without tav as a T. I will pronounce it Spardic way. Now, you can pronounce it either way you like.
So get the text and for those who want to work and practice, I am a Mourner’s Kaddish, just read along with me and then you do it as much as you need to. Yit'gadal v'yit'kadash sh'mei raba b'al'ma di v'ra khir'utei v'yam'likh mal'khutei b'chayeikhon uv'yomeikhon uv'chayei d'khol beit yis'ra'eil ba'agala uviz'man kariv v'im'ru: Amein. Y'hei sh'mei raba m'varakh l'alam ul'al'mei al'maya Yit'barakh v'yish'tabach v'yit'pa'ar v'yit'romam v'yit'nasei v'yit'hadar v'yit'aleh v'yit'halal sh'mei d'kud'sha B'rikh hu. l'eila min kol bir'khata v'shirara toosh'b'chatah v'nechematah, da'ameeran b'al'mah, v'eemru: Amein.
Then you skip Tit’kabel if you have a copy of the full Kaddish in front of you, that is not part of the Mourner’s Kaddish. You go down to the second to the last couplet.
Y'hei sh'lama raba min sh'maya v'chayim aleinu v'al kol yis'ra'eil v'im'ru Amein. Oseh shalom bim'romav hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu v'al kol Yis'ra'eil v'im'ru Amein.
Now, it is most desirable that this be said in a minion, a group of 10 Jews and certainly traditional conservative and the Orthodox Rabbis would say only saying in the group of 10 Jews, Orthodox would say 10 men. And, we have a daily minion here, we try hard to get 10 but if we do not, my feeling I think that of other Rabbis was it is not you do not want to turn somebody away from Kaddish but it is Kaddish in any way.
Now, that is not a traditional view and certainly hoping people should find the minion, a group of 10 Jews in the community to say the prayer with, that is the Mourner’s Kaddish hope this helps.
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