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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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And this, the first yahrzeit of that tragedy and the season of the High Holy Days, is an appropriate time to rebuild our selves.
When I remember, I light a yahrzeit candle for him.
Written for the aliyat neshama of my father, Yisrael ben Yosef Yehuda, on the occasion of his 11th yahrzeit.
The 11th of Cheshvan marks the yahrzeit of our matriarch, Rachel.
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.
Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA marked the yahrzeit of his son by writing an article published in the Wall Street Journal.

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