YIZKOR MEMORIAL SERVICES

Yizkor: Public Prayer Honoring Lost Loved Ones

April 26 | 10:30 a.m. | Passover Concluding Service with Yizkor | Lefkowitz Chapel

Passover is one of only four holidays each year that includes a Yizkor memorial service. The other three are Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shavuot. The service always falls on the final day of the holiday.

Yizkor (meaning “remember”) is dedicated to the memory of the dead - particularly of our mothers and fathers, siblings, and most intimate friends and family. The service is a public appeal to God to remember and always treasure those who have passed. It also reminds the living that their good deeds and actions on earth strengthen the merit and legacy of those who came before them. The service creates an unbroken circle between the living and the dead-those whose memories we covet- and forms a bond between Jewish souls for all time.

“May God remember the soul of...who has gone to eternity. May his/her soul be bound up in the bond of life with the souls of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, and with those of all the righteous in the Garden of Eden. “ - a prayer during Yizkor.