TEMPLE NER TAMID - THE CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION OF PEABODY

Temple Ner Tamid is a Conservative Congregation that enriches Jewish Life by providing for spiritual, ritual, educational and social growth as well as community service in a warm welcoming atmosphere for all individuals and families

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Peabody, MA 01960

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Please note: Yahrzeit begins on the evening preceding the yahzeit date sent by the Temple and ends at sundown on the given date.

If your Yahrzeit falls on a day in which there is no regular morning Minyan and you wish to have one, please contact the temple office in advance to schedule one.

It is customary to kindle a light on the eve of the Yahrzeit which is kept burning for twenty-four hours. This practice is linked with the thought expressed in Proverbs 20:27, "The spirit of a person is the lamp of the Lord."

There is no traditional blessing associated with this lighting, however one may recite the following prayer, Psalm 23 or another prayer of one's own choosing or composition. Or one may light the candle in silence.

God, I am to kindle the Yahrzeit light in memory of ___________.

I am grateful for those who are alive this day and those whose souls are bound up in the bond of eternal life, those through whom my life has been enriched. I pray that I may demonstrate my gratefulness to them by acts of loving-kindness.

I give thanks for the years of life ___________ did enjoy, for the companionship shared with him/her, for his/her gifts of hand and heart and mind which helped bring others happiness, for these and more which will endure in the tenderness of memory and as a hallowing influence.

Help me, God, to make memory into blessing. While accepting the inevitability of death, and affirming the possibility of an afterlife, help me be inspired by the memory to live today and every day with greater compassion, honesty, consecrating purpose, and gratitude.

After the kindling one may say:

(If departed was male) "Zich-ro-no liv-ra-chah."
(If departed was female) "Zich-ronah liv-rachah."
"May his/her memory be for a blessing."

based on a prayer by Rabbi David J. Nesson

Click HERE for a printable version of the prayer

Click HERE for the FEBRUARY, 2010 Yahrzeit list