Yom HaShoah Candle

Yom HaShoah – Day of Remembrance

Another time, another place, it could have been us!

The twenty-seventh day of Nisan (in 2025 the candle lighting is April 23rd) is the day on which Jews throughout the world recall the six million Jews of Europe who were tortured and murdered during the Holocaust. This date was chosen for Yom HaShoah by the Israeli Knesset because it falls between the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Israel's Independence Day. On this day, we recall the splendor of the lives of the European Jews. There is no adequate reaction to the Holocaust, but WE must NEVER FORGET its victims or their message to us.

The Brotherhood of TCS's Holocaust Memorial and Education Endowment Fund (HMEEF) is sending this Memorial (Yahrzeit) candle to YOU. Through our Holocaust education programs we hope to enlighten our congregation, especially our religious school children, to what happened and to help them become citizens who would never allow this to happen again. We commit ourselves to the responsibility for one another, to build on this earth a world that has no room for hatred, bigotry, or violence.

For more information about the HMEEF, click here.

To make a donation, click here.

Light your memorial candle on Wednesday evening April 23rd

A meditation before candle lighting

We light memorial candles in memory of our martyred six million. As we light
this candle, we commit ourselves to the responsibility for one another, to build
on this earth a world that has no room for hatred, bigotry, or violence.
Together, we pray for the strength to fulfill this vision.

Light candle, then say Kaddish:

Mourner’s Kaddish

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’imru: 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 yasseh shalom aleinu,
v’al kol Yisrael. V’imru: Amen.

This Candle Program is the sole source of funding for the HMEEF

To help continue the HMEEF's mission to fight against intolerance, hate and bigotry, please consider making a contribution to the Brotherhood using the donation form below.

Thank you for supporting the Yom HaShoah program.
Evan Goldman, Dr. Howard Heiman, Steve Kaplan, Roger Lifson, and Dr. Jonathan Schiff
HMEEF Administrators
 

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