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The Yahrzeit Memorial, located on the rear wall of the sanctuary, represents each individual as part of a sacred community. Using a handwrought finish on bronze, artist Peter Diepenbrock created a memorial that engages mourners and members of our community in the ideal of zecher livracha, that each person we remember shall be for a blessing. When we enter and leave the sacred space of the sanctuary, we pass by the names and recall memories of loved ones who helped bring us to this moment.

In our tradition, we leave a stone when we visit a gravesite as a marker of kavod, honor and respect. In our sanctuary, we ask that family members take a stone and place it by the name of their loved one, giving those of us far from our family gravesites an opportunity to actively participate in this custom of honoring and remembering. Our Jewish teachings associate powerful meaning with stones. Tsur, as in tsur Yisrael, means rock, implying strength and support. Even, the word used for Jacob’s stone pillow, is also a name for God. As we place the stone by the name of our loved one, we are creating a makom, a place of enduring love and remembrance.

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