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What is a yahrzeit?

What is a yahrzeit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Judaism) The anniversary of a person's death, often of a parent's.
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We explore the life of our foremother Rachel, in honor of her yahrzeit, which falls on the 11 th of Heshvan.
The 11th of Cheshvan marks the yahrzeit of our matriarch, Rachel.
For example, when someone is dead, we remember them every year on their yahrzeit, the day they died.
Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA marked the yahrzeit of his son by writing an article published in the Wall Street Journal.
Written for the aliyat neshama of my father, Yisrael ben Yosef Yehuda, on the occasion of his 11th yahrzeit.
Dyeing Easter eggs, walking under the roof of cornstalks and branches at Sukkoth, biting into hollow crumbly chocolate bunnies, lighting the yahrzeit candle for the grandmother from Minsk.

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