Prayer for the dead is almost a battle with the reality of death and destruction that weighs down upon the earthly existence of man. This is and remains a particular revelation of the Resurrection.

Do we take the time to pray for them? (Because, if we don’t, who will?) This category might also include a deceased spouse (which is often also an opportunity to make the petition of the Our ...

Sinéad O’Connor shared a prayer for “suffering” just six weeks before her unexpected death. The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer fired off a tweet on June 6 that linked to a video of the ...

“Wow” — shevach in Hebrew, or praiseworthiness — is about God’s awesomeness. Rabbi Spodek said he spends a minute or two pondering the miracle that is creation. That there is a (narrowing) climate in ...

Please join us in prayer: God, Who, in Thine ineffable providence, didst will that Thy servant Francis ... should be numbered among the high priests; grant, we beseech Thee, that he, who on earth ...

Fearing that people whose parents were alive would errantly say these words, it was suggested they leave the room, lest their mistaken Yizkor prayer cause the death of their parents. Other rabbis ...