Melinda Bernstein

Remembering The Dearly Departed

Remembering the dearly departed is a significant tradition amongst Jews. It’s called Yahrzeit and is a Yiddish word meaning anniversary of a death. Traditionally the anniversary falls on the Hebrew date, not the Gregorian date. To commemorate the Yahrzeit, mourners light a Yahrzeit candle, which burns for 24 hours. They say Kaddish prayer and hopefully […]

Melinda

7 years ago

From The Narrow Places

From the Narrow Places From the narrow places is an expression most widely used during the most distressful time in the Hebrew calendar. This period of time known as “Beit hametzarim”, which means between the days of distress. It is felt as a gradual increase of mourning customs and rituals which completes on the saddest […]

Melinda

7 years ago

3 POWERFUL LESSONS ABOUT GRIEF AND RECOVERY.

Get these 3 powerful lessons about grief and recovery now. A few months ago I was interviewed by the very dynamic Margaret Manning, who is the global women’s leader of Sixty and Me Her growing online community has 50,000+ women learning how to better their life after sixty. She’s now building her latest site, LifeAfterDeath.com and […]

Melinda

7 years ago