Remembering loved ones

Remembering loved ones Our Beit Midrash offers three ways to sanctify the memory of our departed loved ones by reciting the mourner’s Kaddish:  The entire year after the passing  The whole week of the yahrtzeit  The day of the yahrtzeit Our sages teach us the tremendous importance of saying Kaddish for our departed loved ones. Sometimes, in addition to the dedication of this prayer by a relative, or when there is no relative who can say Kaddish during the first year after a loved one passes on – or on the loved one’s yahrtzeit – a God-fearing Torah scholar can by hired to say Kaddish for the loved one’s soul. In our Beit Midrash, one of our scholars accepts dedicates himself to saying Kaddish, in accordance with the special customs instituted by Mara”n Rabbi Yosef Chaim, the Ben Ish Chai.