The Rabbis’ Kaddish

Kaddish Derabbanan

קדיש דרבנן

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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)

Sephardi

Yitgadal veyitkadash shemeh raba (kahal: Amen)
be'alma di vera chir'uteh
veyamlich malchuteh
veyatzmach purkaneih vikarev meshicheh (kahal: Amen)
bechayeichon uveyomeichon uvechayei dechol beit Yisrael
ba'agala uvizman kariv
ve'imru Amen. (kahal: Amen)

English

Magnified and sanctified may His great name be, in the world He created by His will. 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:

Hebrew

יְהֵא שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא מְבָרַךְ לְעָלַם וּלְעָלְמֵי עָלְמַיָּא.

Sephardi

Yehei shemeh raba mevarach le'alam ul'almei almaya.

English

May His great name be blessed for ever and all time.

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)

Sephardi

Yitbarach veyishtabach veyitpa'ar veyitromam veyitnase
veyithadar veyit'aleh veyithalal
shemeh dekudsha berich hu (kahal: Amen)
le'ela min kol birchata
be'aseret yemei teshuvah: le'ela le'ela mikol birchata
veshirata, tushbechata venechemata, da'amiran be'alma
ve'imru Amen. (kahal: Amen)

English

Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, raised and honored, uplifted and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, beyond any blessing, song, praise and consolation uttered in the world – and say: 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.