Kaddish Quotes
- I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious… — Meghan O'Rourke
- Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read… — Leslie Fiedler
- To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is… — Abraham Cahan
- in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel… — Adrienne Rich
- Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish… — Elie Wiesel
- The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated… — David Novak