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Yahrzeit

The anniversary of a death, kept on the Hebrew calendar — which is why it falls on a different day each year, and why it is easy to lose track of.

It is marked by lighting a candle at nightfall as the day begins, saying Kaddish if you are able to be at a minyan, giving tzedakah, and learning something in their memory. If you would like us to arrange a minyan, or to help with any of it, just call.

Look up a yahrzeit date

Enter the date your loved one passed (the regular calendar date), and we'll find this year's Hebrew-calendar anniversary.

Get a reminder each year

Tell us the date, and we will write to you a week before and again the day before — with the date, the minyan times, and a reminder to light the candle. Nothing else.

The ordinary calendar date. We work out the Hebrew date from it — that is the one the yahrzeit follows, which is why it lands on a different day each year.

If you are not sure of the date

It happens often, and it is fixable. Call us with whatever you have — a rough date, a season, a document — and we will work it out with you. 408-910-2034

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