From Rosh Hashanah 5781 to Rosh Hashanah 5782

One year since Justice Ginsburg's passing on the Jewish calendar.

Justice Ginsburg died in the evening of September 18, 2020. On the Jewish calendar, that date corresponded to the holiday of Rosh Hashanah. That evening the new year of 5781 began. This evening is the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, and the new year of 5782 will begin. Traditionally, children mourn a parent for twelve months, counted from the day of death. That bereavement period will now end. May her memory be a blessing.

Comments

[Noscitur a sociis]

What is wrong with you?

[Don Nico]

Let it be.

[Michael P]

What is wrong with _you_? Were you trying to see how long it would take for someone to echo your question back to you? Or were you simply in too much of a hurry to express what you found wanting in Prof. Blackman's post?

[DaivdBehar]

Blessing? Ginsburg was a mass murdering evil witch. Her hatred of men was so intense, this lying weasel and hypocrite would not be killed by multiple bouts of lethal cancer. I thought only a silver spike could dispatch this horrible person.

[Jon S]

This is not correct on the mourning period. Traditionally, you are a mourner who says Kaddish for 11 months, not 12. It is insulting to recite Kaddish for all 12 months as tradition says even the worst souls ascent to Olam Haba after 12 months and so you wouldn't want to imply that your parent was among the worst of souls.

[Commenter_XY]

Some of us know we had bad parents. We pray for them anyway - the full 12 months.

[SKofNJ]

It is correct that you say Kaddish for 11 months, not 12.

[DaivdBehar]

Ginsburg's soul would have come from a weasel, according to the Jewish view of soul recirculation, as animating life.

[Jon S]

Wow. On the eve of the high holy days no less ... May Hashem forgive you for saying such things

[DaivdBehar]

It's true. A weasel died a few months before Ginsburg was born. God gave the soul a rest from its life as a weasel, to recover from a life filled with trauma and anxiety. Then Hashem placed it into the body of Ginsburg to give her life. Back to work.

[Gjgross]

It's true that kaddish is only said for 11 months, but the period of mourning (with its other attendant practices) continues for 12.

[Bored Lawyer]

Thank you. I was going to post that. Mourning for a parent is 12 months. It is a more recent (albeit almost universal) custom to shorten the kaddish only to 11 months, so as not to imply something negative about the parent. But other mourning continues to 12 months. I know, I lost my father a few months ago and am now in the midst of the first year. No parties, no weddings, no new clothes.

OTOH, that is only for a parent. For other relatives (spouse, siblings, children) mourning is only 30 days.