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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 here 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.

Book of Remembrance forms for 5783 are available here. Please return your completed 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, please contact Lisa or Cantor Vera at 978.373.3861.
Names To Be Read at Yahrzeit
January/February 2023
​January 7
14th of Teiveit
Harry Barson
Dr. Stephen Bender
Nathan Burstein
Sarah (Shirley) Burstein
Barbara Cohen
Donald Cummings
Lena Fishbein
Joseph E. “Joey” Gordon
Anne Graffam
Victor Hannula
Eric Jacobs
Edith Karelis
Frederick "Fritz" Diamant
Raymond J. Neiditz
Hyman N. Paul
Estella Reines
Frank Shlossberg
Martin Tagerman

January 13 & 14
21st of Teiveit
Bessie Barr
George Caparell
Lottie C. Cohen
Irving M. Cummings
Hannah Zeitlin Goldstein
Jennie Hazan
Sonia Jacobson
Jeffrey Levine
Frances Meyerhoff
Paula Pavloff
Edith Porton
Joseph Primack
Philip Primack
Marvin Rabinovitz
Meredith Scher
January 21
28th of Teiveit
Samuel Alter
Louis Apteker
Sumner Berkovich
George Brindis
Helen Chapman
Pearl Cohen
Irving Feldman
Samuel Freedman
Sophie Freedman
Goldie Gardner
Maurice Glagovsky
David Goldberg
David Gordon
Alfred Kassin
Samuel Kirshenbaum
Anna Kolsky
Karen Kotzen
Jerome (Joe) Lefkoff
Brandon Levine
Arthur Levy
Beatrice Mehl
Walter Rothschild
Kenneth Salk
Alvan "Al" Segal
Anna B. Silverman
Leona Sirkman
Maurice Wineapple
January 27 & 28
6th of Sh'vat
Joseph M. Albertson
Beverly Branzburg
Samuel Brindis
Sandra Channen
Mildred Cohen
Archie Cohen
Marjorie Ghilarducci
Harold G. Gould
Zygmunt Jachimowicz
Celia Jacobs
Jack Kule
Sylvia Layton
Myra Livingston
Ruth Mezikofsky
Jonah Miller
Herbert Phillips
Mary Piltch
Eugene Taut
Milton Tooter
Allen Zelinsky
February 3 & 4
13th of Sh'vat 
Tillie Bornstein
Faith Edelstein
Norman Gerson
Lowell Gordon
Marion Karas Heffron
Annie Gertrude Karelis
Eleanor Karelis
Malcolm Kramer
Libby Laskey
Lena Litvack
Eric Medoff
Jennie Mysel
Dora S. Neiditz
Anna Pantel
Baynard Paul
Anna Pollack
Abraham Pollack
Louis Robotnick
Morris Rosenston
Anne Sohcot
Rachael Hope Valentine
Edward Venner
Lester Waks
Adeline B. Watnick
Arlene Wise










February 10 & 11
20th of Sh'vat 
David Baer
Stanley Barr
Louis Birenbaum
Estelle Cohen
Clara Schrager Edwards
Elsie Epstein
Esther Freedman Cohen
Warren Frye
Nathan Gerber
Harry Goldstein
Fay Isaacson
Rose Karas
Arnold Katz
Harry Larsen
Leonard Litvack
Fannie Maistrosky
Jack Mandell
Beatrice Miller
Esther Miller
Isidore Morris
William Ornsteen
Harry Piltch
Nathalie Rosenfield
Diana Rosenston
Lizzie Segal
Solomon Shwom
Morris Sulman
Anne Traister
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February 17 & 18
27th of Sh'vat 
Sylvia Berman
Bernard M. Cohen
William Cohen
Barbara Feingold
Rose Fisher
Philip Freedlender
Bernice T. Glagovsky
Hyman Gross
Rose Haverback
Solomon Jacobson
Annie Kaufman
Harry Kaufman
George Larks
Alexander Larner
Harry Larsen
Jack Leblang
Leo Lewis
Regina Meer
Ben Mershon
Alfred E. Morris
Philip Mysel
Rose Primack
Dora Rakofsky
Gertrude Shapiro
Alan Sibulkin
Raymond Spicer
William Whitten



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February 25
4th of Adar 
Lottie Abel
Maxwell Baker
David Barson
Marilyn Berlin
Fred Bernstein
William Blau
Clara Brody
Victor Cohen
Samuel Cohen
David Fishbein
Tillie Fishman
Samuel Goldberg
Ruth Holtz
Morris Karelitz
Samuel Kaufman
Bertha Celia Mayblum
Eva Merker
Lucy Merkrebs
Ruby Tooter Scherl
Joseph Shade
John Shyavitz
Louis Siegal
Barbara Silberman
Louis Zitren
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    • Yahrzeit
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