Blogging after kaddish

After my year of kaddish ended, I stopped blogging on the Times of Israel about my experience of reciting kaddish daily with a prayer quorum. I felt that I shouldn’t continue, for that year had come to a close, and I didn’t want to cross the line between meaningful contribution and attention whoring.

Eight months later, however, I gave in and returned to the keyboard:

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2021

January

2021/01/14: This is not a poet
2021/01/11: Vicarious immortality [Quote]
2021/01/04: Today Papa did not turn 73

2020

December

2020/12/31: Holiday thoughts, part II: Jewish v. Not
2020/12/30: Holiday thoughts: Jewish v. Not
2020/12/25: The lightning-bug and the lightning [Quote]
2020/12/24: Social skills taught at preschool
2020/12/20: My most disturbing dream
2020/12/18: The heartwarming house sale
2020/12/14: First grade for my Israeli daughter
2020/12/14: Poetry is… [Quote]
2020/12/11: A fool’s wrong tools
2020/12/11: Something beautiful for Chanukah [Video]

November ’20

2020/11/29: “…Suddenly” [Quote]
2020/11/27: When the rabbi’s wife died
2020/11/22: The “synagogue of Satan”
2020/11/19: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s nickname for my father: ‘Maestro’
2020/11/16: Memento
2020/11/12: Blemished mourning
2020/11/08: Difference [Quote]

October ’20

2020/10/29: One death at a time, please
2020/10/23: Mourners relate to mourners
2020/10/19: To India (and others) with love
2020/10/15: Bhagavad Gita Verse 34, Chapter 6 [Quote]
2020/10/12: He was supposed to teach her math
2020/10/09: A father’s legacy
2020/10/08: Insane antisemitism
2020/10/05: Disillusionment

September ’20

2020/09/25: Keyboard Judaism
2020/09/22: A fishy lockdown
2020/09/15: I wanted to be a rabbi
2020/09/13: ‘Space’ in all dimensions
2020/09/11: Resting on Religious Laurels
2020/09/06: Artists want to hear that… [Quote]
2020/09/02: Israel, the secular elephant

August ’20

2020/08/24: An Arab friend?
2020/08/24: Speak to me in Arabic
2020/08/21: My lack of reverence
2020/08/17: Goldfish > Avocado
2020/08/13: Books and activities for multilingual children
2020/08/10: Skepticism feeding skepticism
2020/08/06: The second avocado pit
2020/08/05: Watching Disney movies with your kindergartner
2020/08/02: On raising a multilingual child

July ’20

2020/07/30: Why so public?
2020/07/26: Ethical will
2020/07/21: Those scissors
2020/07/19: More skeptic than kaddish
2020/07/13: Hey, look at me! I’m honoring Papa!
2020/07/10: Hosting kiddush for Papa’s 2^nd yahrzeit
2020/07/06: We are but stories
2020/07/03: “I love you”

June ’20

2020/06/24: The right side of the brain?
2020/06/19: Mourning in the 2^nd year
2020/06/16: The rabbi that ruined my Judaism
2020/06/04: Walking on God
2020/06/01: Beard

May ’20

2020/05/22: Because God
2020/05/14: Gamboling sounds and syllables
2020/05/13: Absence makes
2020/05/07: Change of venue
2020/05/04: Zvi Bernhardt z”l

April ’20

2020/04/30: Chapter Next

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