The Year of Mourning - by Lisa D Grant & Lisa B Segal (Paperback)

About the Book

"Offers an expansive array of resources-stories, songs, study texts, poetry, and prayers-to guide the bereaved through the first year after their loss. Each week the mourner is encouraged to focus on a particular theme to deepen their Kaddish practice. The book also includes new rituals for shivah, sh'loshim, unveiling, and yahrzeit"--

Book Synopsis

The Jewish mourning process is a voyage through pain, brokenness,

comfort, resilience, acceptance, and even gratitude. The

Year of Mourning: A Jewish Journey offers an expansive array

of resources-stories, songs, study texts, poetry, and prayers-to

lovingly and patiently guide the bereaved through the first year

after their loss. Each week the mourner is encouraged to focus on

a particular theme to deepen their Kaddish practice. The book also

includes new rituals for shivah, sh'loshim, unveiling, and yahrzeit.

The Year of Mourning helps support individuals to regain their

grounding after loss and, through the richness of Jewish tradition,

deepen their connections to memories of loved ones and to others

in the community who are walking a similar path.

Review Quotes

How do mourners get through that empty eternity of their first year

without a loved one, that interminable stretch of darkness-perhaps

deepening into despair-after shivah ends? Here at last is a way forward:

a week-by-week, yearlong pathway through poetry, ritual, music, and

the textual wisdom of Jewish tradition, brilliantly conceived and compassionately

framed. I recommend it highly for anyone in mourning.

-Rabbi Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman, Barbara and Stephen Friedman

Professor Emeritus of Liturgy, Worship, and Ritual, Hebrew Union College-

Jewish Institute of Religion

Walking the path of mourning is very much like wandering in the wilderness;

familiar landmarks have become obscured, life's structures have

crumbled. The Year of Mourning is an invaluable compass for this

treacherous path. The editors offer a rich array of spiritual resources-

texts, songs and prayers-in a format that will affirm, guide, and comfort

readers. I know I will share this book often with those who are touched

by grief.

-Rabbi Dayle Friedman, author of Jewish Wisdom for Growing Older