The Rabbis’ Kaddish

kadish d'rabanan

קדיש דרבנן

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Israeli: ' marks a reduced vowel that Israeli speech drops (b'rachah); when the vowel is pronounced it is written e (lefanecha). - separates syllables that would otherwise run together.

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קדיש דרבנן

THE RABBIS' KADDISH

The following prayer requires the presence of a minyan. A transliteration can be found on page 1388.

Mourner:

Hebrew

יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא (קהל: אָמֵן)
בְּעָלְמָא דִּי בְרָא כִרְעוּתֵהּ
וְיַמְלִיךְ מַלְכוּתֵהּ
וְיַצְמַח פֻּרְקָנֵהּ וִיקָרֵב מְשִׁיחֵהּ (קהל: אָמֵן)
בְּחַיֵּיכוֹן וּבְיוֹמֵיכוֹן וּבְחַיֵּי דְכָל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל
בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב
וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן. (קהל: אָמֵן)

Israeli

yitgadal veyitkadash sh'meh raba (kahal: Amen)
be-alma di v'ra chiruteh
veyamlich malchuteh
veyatzmach purkaneh vikarev meshicheh (kahal: Amen)
b'chayeichon uvyomeichon uvechayei d'chol beit Yisra-el
ba-agala uvizman kariv
ve-imru Amen. (kahal: Amen)

All:

Hebrew

יְהֵא שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא מְבָרַךְ לְעָלַם וּלְעָלְמֵי עָלְמַיָּא.

Israeli

yehei sh'meh raba mevarach le-alam ule-almei almaya.

Mourner:

Hebrew

יִתְבָּרַךְ וְיִשְׁתַּבַּח וְיִתְפָּאַר וְיִתְרוֹמַם וְיִתְנַשֵּׂא
וְיִתְהַדָּר וְיִתְעַלֶּה וְיִתְהַלָּל
שְׁמֵהּ דְּקֻדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא (קהל: אָמֵן)
לְעֵלָּא מִן כָּל בִּרְכָתָא
/ בעשרת ימי תשובה: לְעֵלָּא לְעֵלָּא מִכָּל בִּרְכָתָא /
וְשִׁירָתָא, תֻּשְׁבְּחָתָא וְנֶחֱמָתָא, דַּאֲמִירָן בְּעָלְמָא
וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן. (קהל: אָמֵן)

Israeli

yitbarach veyishtabach veyitpa-ar veyitromam veyitnasei
veyithadar veyitaleh veyithalal
sh'meh d'kudsha b'rich hu (kahal: Amen)
le-ela min kol birchata
/ בעשרת ימי t'shuvah: le-ela le-ela mikol birchata /
veshirata, tushbechata venechemata, da-amiran be-alma
ve-imru Amen. (kahal: Amen)

Commentary

It has come to have five forms: (1) Half Kaddish, recited to mark the beginning or end of a section of the prayers; (2) Full Kaddish (Titkabal), to mark the end of the Amida and its associated meditations; (3) the Mourner's Kaddish; (4) The Rabbis' Kaddish, said after a passage from the Oral Law; (5) the Kaddish of Renewal, said only at the conclusion of a tractate of the Talmud, or by a child at the funeral of a parent.

The Rabbis' Kaddish is a prayer not only for the establishment of God's kingdom but also for the teachers of Torah and their disciples. It is …

THE RABBIS' KADDISH The Kaddish, one of the most important of all prayers, had its origins not in the synagogue but in the house of study. It grew out of a custom, still widely practiced, of ending every discourse or sermon with the hope that we may speedily see the coming of the messianic age, when the sovereignty of God will be recognized by all the dwellers on earth. It is written mainly in Aramaic, the language most widely spoken by Jews in the first centuries of the Common Era.