All posts in: Death & Mourning

• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Aveilus vs. Yom Tov

  The Mishna in Pesachim (117) corresponds certain negative sensations with their positive counterpart. I wondered why “avel” (mourning) directly opposes ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
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• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Mourning is as big as the Ocean

  This short vort was given in a dvar Torah by Rabbi Yossi Chazan shlit”a. He brought a Posuk which suggested that mourning was alikened to a sea and suggested ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Arichas Yomim

  I was once at a funeral and heard a beautiful explanation of the significance of the bracha: “May you have arichas yomim (length of days)” : Why do we say ‘arichas ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Arichas Yomim

  by Moshe Kormornick – I was once at a funeral and heard a beautiful explanation of the significance of the bracha: “May you have arichas yomim (length ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Arichas Yomim

        I was once at a funeral and heard a beautiful explanation of the significance of the bracha: “May you have arichas yomim (length of days)” ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Aveilus r”l

  In the traditional comfort of mourners, we recite “May God comfort you amongst the rest of the mourners of zion and Jerusalem”…what is the comparison ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Why Kaddish

  No one likes a change, except for a baby. Even when its results promise to be worthwhile and enduring, change can be difficult. Unpleasant. Scary. Painful. It’s ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Death : Why say Tehillim by a meis (corpse)?

    Why do we say Tehillim by the side of a dead body waiting to be buried?  I pondered this as I was doing the mitzva of Shmira for a lady who had just ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick
• Death & Mourning

  7 years ago

  Im eshkochech Yerushalayim….

  If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. (tehillim 137:5) The Gemara in Baba Basra 60b tells us that after the Second Temple was destroyed, ..

  Written by Anonymous
• Inspiration

  7 years ago

  Arichas Yomim

        I was once at a funeral and heard a beautiful explanation of the significance of the bracha: “May you have arichas yomim (length of days)” ..

  Written by Moshe Kormornick