Kaddish Resources 2024

Sharing some kaddish translations and interpretations

Everett Fox’s translation of mourner’s kaddish, found in Anita Diamant, Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew. Schocken, 1999. NOTE: Some add “…v’al kol Yishmael, v’al kol yoshvei tevel [and all Ishmael and all who dwell on earth]” after v’al kol Yisrael” in the last verse. Fox’s kaddish translation (PDF — sometimes used for Tzedek Chicago Torah study). Also found at Open Siddur

Richard Heiberger’s translation, for National Havurah Committee, in memory of Mary Morris Heiberger (1946-2003). NHC kaddish (PDF — prepared for Tzedek Chicago’s Hebrew Learning Community)

Mourners’ Kaddish in Times of War and Violence by R’ Arthur Waskow

Interpretive kaddish by Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi

Mourners’ Kaddish for Everyday by Debra Cash (a poem found at Ritual Well)

A few older posts on kaddish

Exploring Kaddish and More on Kaddish (2014)

Jewish Mourning and Pets (2021)

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