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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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Examples
The yahrzeit is here, and the least lachrymose country on earth is devising its rituals of commemoration.
Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA marked the yahrzeit of his son by writing an article published in the Wall Street Journal.
For example, when someone is dead, we remember them every year on their yahrzeit, the day they died.
When I remember, I light a yahrzeit candle for him.
But it's a thought provoking, perfectly-timed September 11th yahrzeit piece, that had me rethinking its arguments this morning.
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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