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Yahrzeit

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In Jewish tradition, when the year of mourning is over, mourners are expected to return to a fully normal life. There are several occasions each year when our loved ones who have passed on are memorialized. The most significant of these is yahrzeit, the anniversary of the death, which is observed according to the Hebrew calendar. As is the case in all Jewish holy days, yahrzeit observance begins at night. A 24-hour candle is lit, and it is traditional to avoid attending any celebrations or parties on the day of yahrzeit, and some people fast on that day.

It is customary to recite the Kaddish (memorial prayer) on a loved one's yahrzeit and Temple Emanu-El provides you the opportunity to do so. Shabbat morning services are at 9:30 am on Saturdays throughout the year. In addition, there are services on many Friday evenings during the fall, winter, and spring; the schedule is available on our Shabbat page and in the monthly Temple bulletin. If you wish to recite Kaddish on a Monday or Thursday morning at 7:30 am, the Temple office will try to gather members of our community to help make a minyan. Please call the Temple office a week prior to the morning on which you would like to have a minyan. Remember that the memorial candle should still be lit on the actual date of yahrzeit even if you attend a service to say Kaddish on another date.

In addition, your loved one's name will be read at the Friday evening service on or following the yahrzeit and at the Shabbat morning service on Saturday. If there is no evening service that Friday, the name will be read only on Saturday. It is hoped that you can attend these services and thereby pay tribute to the memory of your loved one .

Book of Remembrance

The Book of Remembrance is used during the Yizkor services on Yom Kippur, Sh'mini Atzeret, Passover, and Shavuot. 

The Book of Remembrance is a major source of fundraising for Temple Emanu-El, and your participation in it by including the names of those whose memories you cherish is really a double mitzvah! Each name to be included is $18.

Please return your completed Book of Remembrance form to the Temple office by Friday, August 26.
May the souls of our loved ones named here
and all those whom we remember on this day
be bound up in the bond of eternal life.

There are stars whose light reaches the earth only after they themselves have disintegrated. And there are those individuals whose memory lights the world after they have passed from it. These lights shine in the darkest night and illumine for us the path ....
—Hannah Senesh

Memorial Plaque

Honor Your Father and Your Mother.

It is a widely observed Jewish tradition to commemorate the passing of a loved one by memorializing those that have departed with a yahrzeit plaque on a dedicated memorial wall.

At Temple Emanu-El, these plaques are lit on the yahrzeit, or anniversary of death, and for Yizkor services.

Plaques are inscribed with the name of the deceased in both English and Hebrew as well as the date of the person's death. They are available to view whenever the sanctuary is open.
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The one-time cost of the plaque is $300. To purchase a plaque in honor of a departed loved one, order online or contact Lisa or Cantor Vera at 978.373.3861.

​Please note that plaques can take up to two months to be engraved and installed.
Names To Be Read at Yahrzeit
June 2023

June 2 & 3
14th of Sivan
Julia Berman Cohen
Philip Cohen
Shirley Darling
Stanley Dress
Frieda Feldman
Max Friedman
Beatrice Gerber
Bernard Goldberg
Louis Gordett
Lillian Hall
Ralph F. Jonas
Louis Kaufman
Marshall Levine
Gertrude Loew
Julius Pamis
Ida Rickless
Jerome Rosengard
Rachel Stolzberg
Moses Streisfield
Louis Vigman
Celia Zembler
June 10
21st of Sivan
Dora Alter
Abraham Apteker
Adele Ash
Lena Bakerman
William Berman
Anne Biberman
Jacob Boorstein
Stanley Bornstein
Harry Brown
Frieda Buckman
James Edelstein
Sophie Fleet
Dora Genson
Abraham Gerber
Max Glazer
Eva Grad
Philip Greenstein
Regina Jachimowicz
Fannie Levine Kantofsky
Bessie Karelitz
Maurice Korinow
Jane Ornsteen Cohen
Charlotte M. Ralby
Albert Saron
Michael Shirley
Isadore Wise
June 16 & 17
28th of Sivan
Etta Agronin
Melvin Ash
Alice H.  Bell
Samuel Bernstein
Alice Bloom
Yale Canter
Dr. Harold Cohen
Harry Cohen
Gertrude Coltin
Clara Kort
Bertha Kremer
Theodore Lang
Anne Lebowitz
Jere Maxmen
Robert Ornsteen
Rueben Parker
Kathryn F. Phillips
James Rabinovitz
Elizabeth Robin
Esther T. Rosen
Selma Rosengard
Maryjo Rutstein
Maxine H. Scher
Louis Shafmaster
Edward Swartz
Frank Traister
Harry Wise
Ann Young
David Zakin
Meyer Zelman
June 24
5th of Tammuz
Fannie Barson
Lena Berkovich
Letty Berkovich
Morry S. Berlin
Larry Cowan
Eunice Feinberg
Nathan Feldman
Murray Finkel
Sarah Forman
Herman Fox
Herman Goldberg
Philip Goldberg
Morris Goldfield
Anne Goldstein
Louis Hartman
Rita Hurwitz
Samuel Katz
Sidney Kotzen
Susan  Levene
Vicki Novick
Jacob Price
Raymond Robin
Morris Sacarob
Milton Scher
Joseph Shain
Phillip Sidel
David Traister
Stella Wise
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    • Yahrzeit
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