This Z-fold, laminated pamphlet provides a ritual for lighting a memorial candle for deceased loved ones. It is designed for use by both clergy and laypeople, at home or in a synagogue, for yahrzeit or Yizkor. The pamphlet includes biblical and contemporary readings, Mourner’s Kaddish, and a guide to customs.
Rabbi Annie Villarreal-Belford, PsyD (she, her), a native of El Paso, Texas, was the first full-time female solo rabbi in Houston, Texas, serving Temple Sinai from 2009–2022. She currently works as Editor at CCAR Press. In her free time, she enjoys reading, creating mixed media art, visiting National Parks, and loves nothing more than soaking up life with her spouse and three children.
CCAR’s Lighting a Memorial Candle is an elegant choice of prayers and verses that invites us to see light as an antidote to the darkness that accompanies grief. In Judaism, light is hope that enables us to choose life in memory of our loved ones. Remembering retrieves from death that which cannot be taken away from us. These prayers for Yizkor and yahrzeit enable us to take new steps, alone and with family and friends, illuminated by light and life.
—Rabbi David Lyon, Senior Rabbi, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, and President, Central Conference of American Rabbis
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