Yahrzeit

Quick meaning: Yahrzeit is a noun meaning (Judaism) The anniversary of a person's death, usually a parent's, often marked by the lighting of a memorial candle and other rituals.

Meaning

(Judaism) The anniversary of a person's death, usually a parent's, often marked by the lighting of a memorial candle and other rituals.

Example Sentences

Let's remember Hank Greenberg's yahrzeit, the 30th of Av, which falls this year on Sept. 3.

Sad to say, the Yahrzeit of every-Jew is fading away from the memory of the average Jew in America.

The yahrzeit is here, and the least lachrymose country on earth is devising its rituals of commemoration.

"Yahrzeit" (year's time) is the anniversary of the parent's death. On the evening preceding, a light is kindled in the house, and kept burning until the following sundown. Synagogue service in the morning and evening is also attended, and the kaddish recited. "Nahala" (inheritance) is the poetic equivalent of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews for the Teutonic Yahrzeit.

Word Forms

• yahrzeits
• yahrtzeit

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