From Jewish News of Northern California:
All his life, Leon Charney had uttered the Kaddish. By rote.
He davened from the amud alot?
Then, when his mother died, Charney opted for the Mourner’s Kaddish, extreme edition, reciting it several times a day with a minyan for a year. The experience got him wondering why the prayer has proven so central to Jewish life.
Charney’s inquiry resulted in "The Mystery of the Kaddish," a bestselling book he co-wrote with Israeli journalist Saul Mayzlish. On Nov. 29, Charney will speak about the book and the prayer at Berkeley’s Jewish Community Center of the East Bay.
For a man known for his work as a Middle East peace negotiator, talk show host and philanthropist, this intimate quest to understand the Kaddish might seem out of character. It wasn’t.
I mean, a quest to understand Kaddish would be understandable, but an intimate quest?
"What I learned," he said from his New York office, "is that this integral prayer, brought about by rabbinical Judaism, has kept the Jewish people together for 2,000 years. The whole idea is minyan, and minyan is community." [...]
So it's the same concept as shmaltz herring?
3 comments:
With a little kichel and some schapps . . . you bet -that and bagels, lox and fiddler and the roof.
I don't pretend to deep knowledge of any subject religious, aside of reading Kaddish (unfortunately) and first few words of a few prayers, but I would say that a good herring beats a good Kaddish anytime ;-)
More like bagels, actually.
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