Mourner's Kaddish

Original melody for Mourner's Kaddish written for my father after his death and recorded after my mother's passing. Vocals and piano by Wendy Rubin, arranged and produced by Michael Creber

[@alisvolatpropriis4898]

For my Yiddische Mamme, Golda Perel bat Minka and Dov, A’H, on her first Yahrzeit. She was an Auschwitz Survivor. I miss you, Mamme and I always will. 💔

[@lisahaber5447]

My mom passed away in February 2021. I found this when searching for music. It is beautiful, soulful, and has been key in helping me through my grief. Thank you so much for your creative expression and thanks for who put transcription and translation of these words to make more accessible for all of us to understand.

[@janegrossman8955]

Beautiful. I was looking for the prayer to honor my mom's Yartzheit, she would have loved this.

[@NOT_THE_BEETUS]

My mother passed last month. May her memory be a blessing

[@andrzejwojcikowski3602]

Mourner’s Kaddish Glorified and sanctified be God’s great name throughout the world which He has created according to His will. May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and during your days, and within the life of the entire House of Israel, speedily and soon; and say, Amen. May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored, adored and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations that are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen. May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life, for us and for all Israel; and say, Amen. He who creates peace in His celestial heights, may He create peace for us and for all Israel; and say, Amen.

[@vivienneingram3653]

This was a gift to me in a moment where no Kaddish spoke to me. I mourn the death of a beloved friend and survivor of the Shoah. Thank you.💛

[@mosheisrael7755]

I lost my brother this week, this helps me grieve and heal. Thank you.

[@carolinezegart5841]

I just lost my brother to pancreatic cancer. This is helping me cope....

[@jonhenning]

I always wondered why this song sounds different. Then I learned why. Makes sense. Blessed be his name.

[@eBenBrandeis]

The beautiful melody, singing and instrumentation all combine to bring the Mourner's Kaddish alive in a new and meaningful way. Thank you Wendy for sharing it with the world.

[@simagodfrey8246]

Today is the yahrzeit for my dad and by chance I came upon your wonderful recording of the Mourner's Kaddish. Knowing that your dad and mine had been friends made it all the more beautiful.

[@laralillibridge9075]

Thank you for this. It has helped me so much in my time of grief.

[@grandmacherylfavoritebooks8552]

Today is a yahrzeit for my Father. This is so beautiful,

[@beatweezl]

Wow. Just wow. What a stunningly beautiful piece. Such flow.

[@bison2022]

Beautiful music and song.

[@miri-amisraelchai]

How timely, in these sad, dark days... Yehi zichram baruch...

[@humbertogatica6420]

Shalom. Amen.

[@NamTH2718]

Thank you. This calms my soul. My grandmother just passed, leaving beautiful memories here...

[@karinbriofita]

How beautiful, what a voice! like an angel! Thank you, I am listening today, my dad passed from covid exactly a year ago today. My dear beloved daddy.

[@sf4477]

I am listening for my daddy and others in my family. He was victim of the polio epidemic but lived and thrived never having to use any cane or wheelchair. My mother's family almost lost their 2 youngest to scarlet fever in southwest Georgia. My aunt's eyes crossed permanently but she has always been such a beauty and so popular with everyone, she is the last left of us so we can still enjoy the wisdom of an elder. How blessed we all are to be living today!

[@m.sarsheen1591]

In beautiful rememberance for my friend's precious dog, Yaldah

[@benjibeatnik]

Thank you from the depths of my soul for posting this beautiful rendition. My Dad passed away 3 months ago; this song has been such a daily comfort; it's a deeply moving performance. May Peace be with your father, as well as mine. Thanks again. Shalom❤️‍🩹✡️

[@KimNemirow]

Alfred Bernard Nemirow Lieutenant in Korean War..father of Kira,Jill, and zkim May G-d raise him up as on wings of eagles. WE LOVE YOU DADDY!

[@jacklevenstadt9652]

Going to visit my Mom today on her 5th year anniversary of her passing. And her Birthday is September 8th. I will play this at The GRAVE SITE😢😢😢

[@ramalammagramma2888]

May RBG’s memory be for a blessing.

[@zeefrancis9593]

Thanks Wendy. I’m not a Jew! Formerly a Druze. Now an Episcopalian Christian. Since I converted I discovered the Bible both the Hebrew & the Christian scriptures(old & new), I have attracted to the Five Books of Moses. This Prayer the day I heard it is Stuck in my head. I wake up every day & it plays in my head. After listening to it daily few times I feel ALIVE & that my deceased loved ones are in a better place. There is no logic to all this but this song keeps me going. So powerful. Thank you. Blessings to you & yours. May their memories be a Blessing.

[@bodhidavidadam101]

Singing from the silence. A space to connect with what is lost. Wonderful. Thank you.

[@swyman10]

For Hanukah, my wife & I bought each other Ancestry DNA kits. We started researching our ancestry. I knew 3 of my grandparents were from Russia & my Gramma on my Mom’s side was Polish. They were all brought to this country as tiny children. None knew anything of the old country. I always thought my family had avoided the Holocaust. I knew my Gramma was Polish from all my Poppa’s “Polock” jokes & jabs at her. The Jewish community was very aware of the Holocaust. My Bar Mitzvah teacher was an Auschwitz survivor! In my research, I just discovered that her parents & only a few of their many siblings immigrated to the US or Canada around 1900 or so. ALL THE REST were lost! Gramma never said a word! She had to know. I remember they visited their parent’s graves in Canton, OH during High Holy Days so why no mention of her Bubba & Zada? I don’t get it? I never had any idea. The names, the faces, all lost. I stopped counting at 11, I was crying too hard to see the screen. I never knew! I am 66 years old & NEVER knew! I have been crying & saying Kaddish in my head for them for 3 days nonstop. That brought me here, we are in COVID-19 isolation & can’t go to synagogue. 2020 has sucked, so many dead. I am determined to learn all I can about them. It is very difficult to research ancestry for a Jew. Between language & calendar barriers, it’s really tough. I’m at a roadblock, everything ends at WWII. can’t stop thinking of the loss, what all of humanity lost when we lost all those souls from the Holocaust. We must all never forget them, say Kaddish for them on Shabbat & the High Holy Days. Say Kaddish for all our people who have lost their lives only because they were Jews. I’m glad my ancestry research brought me here, Thank You for posting this & Happy Hanukah 🕎 & good Shabbat, Peace to all Men & Women ☮️

[@mariekatherine5238]

Beautiful melody for Kaddish. My mother’s side of the family was similar to yours. The last living Holocaust survivor was Bubbe Elvie as we called her. She was the last connection to Europe, but she NEVER spoke of her young adulthood or childhood except that she was sent to the country where the nuns were her mothers. Then she grew up and had to leave to work for the Germans. We don’t even know which camp she was in. After that she made a friend and they came to New York together. Bubbe Elvie passed in 1968. Her married name was Gelfand and we think her father’s name was Tuva, but that sounds more like a first name.

[@humbertogatica6420]

Shalom

[@Living_Dead_Girrl]

Thank you so much for sharing. I feel less alone reading an experience so similar to my own. My members of my family who lost almost their entire families remaining in Europe, passed away before I was born. My mom did our family's genealogy, and yet, nothing about the Holocaust ever came up. We too thought our family escaped to America in time. My great great great grandfather happens to have a surname unique to only our family, and with that my mom was able to discover family all over the country, and much later, I was able to discover family scattered throughout the world without a DNA test. It gets very complicated for the female descendants because they adopt their husband's surnames upon marriage, and only the first generation are listed with "nee [maiden name]" in their names. I searched Yad Vashem's online database, and within seconds, I learned 33 members of my family were killed in the Holocaust, how (for some), where, and approximately when... With the exception of the many forcibly "evacuated" deep into Russia from Soviet Occupied territories, including Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, etc - who were "disappeared" into mass graves no researcher's ever been allowed to investigate enough to locate. Millions more were killed by the Soviets in a joint operation between them and the Germans before Barbarossa. The secret pact: Molotov-Ribbentrop. It's a huge part of the "Holocaust by Bullets," of which deaths like the Babi Yar Massacre, aren't counted in the 6M figure. My Rabbi once told my mom, knowing she was deeply involved in Holocaust studies at the time, told her the actual figure is 20M. Anyways, Yad Vashem's database was continuing to get records released from the Kremlin, which hoarded records from every camp they "liberated" in addition to their own collaboration, with Russia releasing the batch that contained 33 confirmed relatives in 2018. Before 2018, nobody had access to these records of millions. A few more were negotiated for release at some point after, and upon searching again a year later (within the last year), the number of just one relative's family members killed grew from 33 to 44. Surviving family gave witness testimony to Israeli officials, which helped give context and details to several of the deaths. It also gave me her married name. She emigrated to the new state of Israel after WWII. I can't get into any details about what specifically horrified me, because KZbin will censor it, but I can't recommend searching Yad Vashem's Shoah database enough. Also, it's very worth your while to do your genealogy for real, and not just thru DNA. You'll find records, stories, ship manifests, photos, their languages, careers, and in the case of my great great great grandfather who came to America fleeing a pogrom the leveled his Jewish village in Belarus, an entire autobiography in Yiddish they were able to translate into English. You never know what you'll find, but you will find a lot because we're a people that fought to exist, and that includes documenting your life for your family in case you don't survive. It's why he wrote his autobiography, he didn't think he'd survive the weeks long 3rd class ship ride to America. He wrote it for his 3 children on the boat, so they'd know their dad in case he perished. However, thankfully he made it (or I wouldn't be here) and went on to have 4 more children with his wife in America.

[@andrewjordan7903]

Great melody, a vehicle to visit the spirit of my departed loved ones. Thank you.

[@marjanasibinovic1295]

Sa tugom za sve moje preminule, neka su blagoslovene uspomene na njih

[@sallythorne7925]

Captures the very soul of this prayer. Thank you for allowing this very personal rendering out into the world, where so many grieving hearts will need it at this time in our shared history.

[@clair9167]

Beautifully sung. Thank you for posting.

[@susanneriedelplenio9110]

Thank you. Danke schön.

[@AbigailRudner]

This is the most moving... thank you

[@spirit7711]

Wow, Wendy! This is beautiful. Loved it. And your voice is so rich and evocative. hmmm....hmmm. What a tribute to your parents. Touched my heart for sure

[@Mazelcom]

Beautiful. ..

[@PaulBerson]

Beautiful Thank You For Sharing Amen 🙏🎶💕🎶💕🥇🥂🕊

[@marylandalcohollicensingas7560]

A lovely version of this beautiful prayer. Thx for creating it Wendy. I just lost a close friend to Ovarian Cancer and this song is incredibly healing.

[@iramarlowe6691]

This is just beautiful. I'm writing a musical adaptation of Kafka's "Metamorphosis", set in a Jewish family in 1959. I was looking for inspiration for a song after the son finally dies. I promise I won't steal any of this, but it's given me a great idea for the mood and tone. Thank you.

[@maryadlersberg9092]

Simply beautiful. Touches the mystery of it all. The melody reaches the grandeur of those words. Thank you my dear Wendy!

[@yonatankunda]

פותח את הלב לרווחה opens the heart wide open

[@jasonmiller6381]

Thank you. Speechless.

[@barbaraorenstein8545]

Haunting, poignant, beautifully done - totally wonderful - a gift to your parents' memory and to all of us. Kol Ha K'vod ....

[@carinchanning9388]

❤ my mama passed this week 🙏🙏🙏

[@zekec6088]

I hope you're doing alright today 💌sending love 💓🙏💓

[@funwithavril]

So beautiful and evocative, Wendy! Thank you.

[@reneekitsz1650]

Marianne you passen away so suddenly i miss you every day

[@ln8601]

I lost my mother BDH and am alone and far, this has brought me great comfort, in this melody and voice thank you.

[@arthurb8924]

❤

[@elsaking8202]

So evocative! Beautiful, Wendy.

[@chayimito18]

Exquisite...

[@SweetSirenia]

I needed this right now. May Ruth Bader Ginsburg's memory be a blessing.

[@JustMe-ss6fr]

For her support of the abominations of Molech, she will remain in Sheoul

[@NatanelYaHu]

Not a G-d fearing Jew. An example of how a Jewish person should be. On the same level of Joseph Stallin.

[@clarabirnbaum8094]

It`s deeply touching . . . so beautiful, Wendy.

[@lauraduhan-kaplan1176]

Very moving. Thank you!

[@thedylanshow1]

Very beautiful, thank you for this upload.

[@chaskaplan]

Gorgeous!

[@bhavanijudithtucker3502]

Thank you, Wendy...so tender and poignant, both the melody and your singing. Sharing with a friend who just lost his father.

[@davidrosenberg9837]

such a beautiful and haunting tribute

[@francescamelman8455]

I really love this. I wanted to sing it for my father who has just passed away. Do you have any Guitar Chords? Thanks

[@joannemarks1339]

Wendy... Susan shared this with me today... I am so moved, beautiful. Thank you. Joanne (Cottonwood Oil herbalist :)

[@f3ltg3lt]

Perfect.

[@andrzejwojcikowski3602]

Kaddish Yatom (in Polish) Niech będzie wywyższone i poświęcone Imię Jego (Amen), wielkie w świecie, który sam stworzył według Swej woli. Niechaj ustanowi Swe królowanie za życia waszego i za dni waszych i zażycia całego domu Izraela, szybko i w bliskim czasie, mówcie: Amen. Niechaj Imię Jego będzie błogosławione po wszystkie czasy. Niechaj będzie błogosławione i pochwalone, opiewane i wywyższone, wyniesione i uświetnione, uwielbiane i sławione Święte Imię Jego. Niech będzie błogosławiony we wszystkich błogosławieństwach i pieśniach pochwalnych, hymnach i dziękczynieniach zanoszonych na tym świecie, mówcie: Amen. Niechaj zapanuje niebiański pokój na wysokościach, oby zesłał pokój i dla całego Izraela; mówcie: Amen.

[@RaiKai100]

😢❤

[@melissaahomer]

TRANSLITERATION Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba b’alma di v’ra chirutei, v’yamlich malchutei, b’chayeichon uv’yomeichon uv’chayei d’chol beit Yisrael, baagala uviz’man kariv, v’im’ru: Amen. Y’hei sh’mei raba m’varach l’alam ul’almei almaya. Yitbarach v’yishtabach v’yitpaar v’yitromam v’yitnasei, v’yit’hadar v’yitaleh v’yit’halal sh’mei d’kud’sha b’rich hu, l’eila min kol birchata v’shirata, tushb’chata v’nechemata, daamiran b’alma, v’imru: Amen. Y’hei sh’lama raba min sh’maya, v’chayim aleinu v’al kol Yisrael, v’imru: Amen. Oseh shalom bimromav, Hu yaaseh shalom aleinu, v’al kol Yisrael, v’imru: Amen. TRANSLATION Exalted and hallowed be God’s great name in the world which God created, according to plan. May God’s majesty be revealed in the days of our lifetime and the life of all Israel - speedily, imminently, To which we say: Amen. Blessed be God’s great name to all eternity. Blessed, praised, honored, exalted, extolled, glorified, adored, and lauded be the name of the Holy Blessed One, beyond all earthly words and songs of blessing, praise, and comfort. To which we say: Amen. May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life, for us and all Israel. To which we say: Amen. May the One who creates harmony on high, bring peace to us and to all Israel. To which we say: Amen.

[@bhavanijudithtucker3502]

Thank you for posting the transliteration and a translation, Melissa! Wendy's tender singing and evocative melody really touched me, and I wanted to pass it along to a friend whose father died recently. Happy to not have to search further for this info.

[@MrawwarM]

Todah! Thank you for your diligence in in posting this beautiful translation. What a treasure for those who are entering the Kingdom of Heaven b’shem Yeshua ha Maschiach

[@zeefrancis9593]

THANK YOU Melissa. Blessings

[@ingridvanderhorst9140]

Thank you ❤️

[@oliverrichter2379]

To absent friends. L'Chaim towim u'leSchalom

[@carolineyoungs5878]

Can this be purchased

[@ranchsailor721]

What language is she singing in?

[@gotmilshtein]

Who performed this?

[@JannyLynne]

Wendy Rubin

[@MonaElf-bs8wv]

AMEN🙏🏻🤲🏻🫶🏻✨🪄🤍🕊️Thank You❤️🎁🎈🌈💐

[@hatestravel]

I lost my friend today אל איר געפֿינען מנוחה מיין

[@nakedhombre]

This is not a melody I am familiar with

[@sigevalee]

Such a beautiful Mourner's Kaddish, Wendy @w.l.r.7805. Please let me know if we are able to purchase the sheet music and how to get permission to use your version, please. We are planning to have an Interfaith Remembrance Service in December here in Sydney. I hope to hear form you. Thank you so much.

[@bodhidavidadam101]

Singing from the silence. A space to connect with what is lost. Wonderful. Thank you.