All tagged Avram Halfi

Shir Hadash shel Yom: A COVID Journal in Hebrew Poems

In the year of mourning the tragic loss of her father, Wendy Zierler, Ph.D., began a practice of translating and teaching one Hebrew poem a week to the minyan with whom she recited Kaddish. When her mother died, almost a full year later, her practice continued, bringing comfort while she grieved her parents. The pandemic and its stay-at-home orders curtailed the way in which Kaddish was shared, but not the essential practice of choosing the weekly poems and finding the myriad ways they provided shape during an uncertain time.