Mourn

The Kaddish responds to three questions: Is there a God? Why do people die? What is the meaning of life?

Shoveling dirt onto the coffin is the family's final ritual act of honoring the dead.

Recent historical events have lead to new archetypes.

Judaism has communal fasts that are not on the yearly calendar and numerous occasions when individuals may choose to fast.

This pre-Passover fast applies to a select few.

In Jewish sources, the ideal Jewish society will be situated in Israel and ushered in by catastrophic events.

Early Zionist thinkers envisioned, in great detail, the perfect human--and Jewish--society.

At death, several gestures indicate respect for the deceased as well as acceptance of the reality of death.

Kaddish Yatom, an Aramaic prayer glorifying God, is recited by mourners.

The idea that the soul is the human instrument of spirituality became more prominent over the course of Jewish history.

The Transmigrating Soul. Jewish Reincarnation. Jewish Life After Death. Jewish Afterlife and Eschatology. Jewish View on Next Life. Jewish Ideas and Beliefs

Though the survival of the soul after death is hinted at in the Hebrew Bible, it became an explicit doctrine only in the early centuries of the Common Era.