This space exists as an act of care, remembrance, and responsibility. The communal Yahrzeit List and Mi Shebeirach List are not symbolic gestures or passive memorials; they are living commitments. To add a name here is to ensure that someone is held in prayer, in memory, and in intention — not once, but over time. These lists exist because I believe that Jewish communal life is defined not only by who gathers together, but by who continues to be remembered and cared for even when they are absent.

    The communal Yahrzeit List is a place of ongoing remembrance. Names added here are spoken, marked, and held when their yahrzeit returns each year. This is not about abstraction or numbers; it is about honoring individual lives and the relationships they shaped. Grief does not disappear because time moves forward, and memory should not be left to chance. By placing a loved one’s name on this list, you are choosing continuity: choosing that their memory will be carried forward intentionally, year after year, as a blessing.

    The Mi Shebeirach List is a space of sustained prayer for healing — physical, emotional, and spiritual. Names on this list are not added lightly, and they are not treated as temporary afterthoughts. To be named here is to be held in a circle of concern and compassion, without judgment about the nature of the illness or struggle. Healing is not always quick, visible, or linear, and this space honors that reality. Prayer here is not a demand for outcomes, but an offering of presence.

    Both lists are communal by design. Even if you are submitting a name privately, the act itself is rooted in the belief that no one should be carried alone. Joys and burdens alike are meant to be shared, spoken aloud, and remembered together. Names may be added with Hebrew names where known, and with as much care and accuracy as possible. Confidentiality and respect are central — these lists are held gently, not exposed carelessly.

    This page exists for moments when words fall short and attention matters most: when grief feels too heavy to carry alone, when illness isolates, when time threatens to erase names that still deserve to be spoken. Adding a name here is an act of love, of trust, and of insistence that lives matter — in sickness and in health, in life and in memory.

    May those remembered on the Yahrzeit List be bound up in everlasting blessing. May those named in the Mi Shebeirach List be held in strength, compassion, and healing. And may this shared act of remembering and praying remind us that we are still responsible for one another.