Living a year of Kaddish Ari L. Goldman
Publisher: New York : Schocken Books, c2003.
ISBN: 0805241841
DDC: 296.445092
LCC: E184.37
Summary:
"The day after Ari Goldman celebrated his fiftieth birthday his
father died of a heart attack, and Goldman began the ritual year of
mourning required by Jewish law. There were the obligations (the
daily recitation of kaddish in a synagogue quorum of ten), the
prohibitions (not listening to music or buying new clothes), and the
self-examination that the death of a parent and the mourning rituals
triggered. Death meant coming to terms with a father he loved but
never fully understood, in part because of his parents' divorce and
its stormy aftermath." "Goldman explores the emotional and spiritual
aspects of spending a year in mourning, as he examines its effects on
him as a husband, father, and member of his community. Left without
parents (his mother died four years earlier), he is no longer a son
to anyone, but he comes to understand that through the daily
recitation of kaddish, he can both connect with and honor his mother
and his father in a way that he could not always do during their
lifetimes. And in his daily synagogue attendance - usually near his
Manhattan home but also during the course of his travels in Israel,
the Catskills, and France - he finds his fellow worshipers to be an
unexpected source of strength, wisdom, and comfort."--BOOK JACKET.
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