Funeral Service

True Judge, Judge of righteousness and truth: Blessed is the true Judge for all His judgments are righteous and true. In Your hand is the soul of every living thing. Your right hand and power are full of righteousness. Have compassion on the remnant of the flock of those who serve You, and say to the angel [of death], “Stay your hand.” Great in counsel and mighty in deed, Jer. 32 Your eyes are open to all the ways of men, giving each according to his ways and the fruit of his deeds: to proclaim that the Lorn is upright; Ps, 92 He is my Rock, in whom there is no wrong. The Lorn has given and the Lorn has taken away: Job1 blessed be the name of the Lorn. He is compassionate; He forgives iniquity and does not destroy. Ps. 78 Repeatedly He suppresses His anger, not rousing His full wrath. The following Kaddish, said by the mourners, requires the presence of a minyan. Mourner: Magnified and sanctified may His great name be, in the world that will in future be renewed, reviving the dead and raising them up to eternal life. He will rebuild the city of Jerusalem and in it reestablish His Temple. He will remove alien worship from the earth and restore to its place the worship of Heaven. Then the Holy One, blessed be He, will reign in His sovereignty and splendor. May He establish His kingdom, make His salvation flourish, and hasten His messiah, in your lifetime and in your days, and in the lifetime of all the house of Israel, swiftly and soon — and say: Amen. All: May His great name be blessed for ever and all time.