kaddish

To whom it may concern; I've published a Kaddish for Steve Jobs which is actually a literary masup work using mainly Allen Ginsberg's materials (Kaddish for Naomi and Howl).

And some of the prayers (including quite important ones like the Kaddish and the Kol Nidre said on Yom Kippur) are in Aramaic.

While undoubtedly charming, by paying someone to speak the Kaddish for one year instead of yourself, or paying a Shabbes Goy to push buttons on your behalf just outsources your religious duties.

> Imagine how an Orthodox Jewish rabbi would feel if a gentile pop-music multimillionaire made a music video in which he used the Kaddish to mourn a Maserati he’d totaled.

We could demand that ten good people testify to your ownership like a minyan for The Mourner's Kaddish but society, so far, is satisfied with the current system enough not to do this because it would be terribly onerous.

As a kinda-sorta Christian (raised Catholic), I've long admired the Jewish approach to the Mourner's Kaddish prayer said when a loved one dies: It's not about the deceased, nor even about death — it's about G-d.

The word Yahrzeit (from the German words "jahr" for year and "zeit" for time), refers to the anniversary of one's death, and is observed by recalling fond memories of the decased, visiting their grave, lighting a long-burning candle, and saying a prayer (typically a Kaddish) with a quorum.