Publisher's Synopsis
What is Kaddish? Kaddish is not merely a liturgicalformula. We say in our tradition that a personis a Kaddish, not merely that he says a Kaddish. What isKaddish? Kaddish is the declaration that God is supreme, thatHis kingdom is real, that we hold the visions of it in the centerof our being. Kaddish is the proclamation that God, who isabove all of our blessings and all our praises, is neverthelessat the heart of our hearts and the soul of our souls, and isthe Source and the Guarantor of all that is good and just andright and beautiful and holy. Kaddish is a turning outward tothe world in ultimate concern, even when our own hearts arebroken inside and are praying for the peace and the welfare ofIsrael and mankind. Kaddish is man's determined struggle tomake God King in this world, to bring the peace that reignsin His high places into the places of human habitation. And aJew is asked not simply to say Kaddish, but to be a Kaddish.- Rabbi Dudley Weinberg
