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Author: erin

Erin Vang, PMP, BMus, MMus, is Owner and Principal Pragmatist of the consultancy Global Pragmatica LLC®, offering custom JMP scripting, localization program management, and facilitative leadership services. She is also an orchestral horn player who freelanced in the San Francisco Bay Area and played assorted brass for the celebrated dance bands Midnight Smørgåsbord and contraPtion. She now conducts all her nefarious activities from Vanghalla, in Helena, Montana, where she's principal hornist of the Helena Symphony. More about Erin…

daily kaddish: 44 more to go

Posted on 14 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Mira pointed out before we recorded the Kaddish tonight that we have forty-four more of these to go before completing our lunar year of them on 27 November 2011. We started on 7 November 2011.

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daily kaddish: for Dennis Ritchie

Posted on 13 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Tonight’s Kaddish is for Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, among other accomplishments, who died yesterday at the age of 70.

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daily kaddish: at 1am

Posted on 12 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Once again a statistical software conference pushes my Kaddish duties into the wee hours.

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daily kaddish: at 2am

Posted on 11 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Sometimes keeping up the daily ritual is a royal pain.

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daily kaddish: ein ein sof

Posted on 10 October 201116 October 2011 by erin

Mira opens this Kaddish with a reading from a book the Beit Malkhut study group is working on. I’ll let her explain. —Erin

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daily kaddish: the Steve Jobs we didn’t know

Posted on 9 October 201115 October 2011 by erin

I wanted to play another Kaddish for Steve Jobs after reading my friend Lori’s remembrance of him from her days working at Apple.

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daily kaddish: the other wrist support

Posted on 8 October 201115 October 2011 by erin

Yesterday I tried playing Kaddish supine while using the black thermoplastic brace that my hand therapist made me. Tonight, I tried again with the thicker, stiffer white brace she also made.

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daily kaddish: from the injured bench

Posted on 7 October 201115 October 2011 by erin

This is the first Kaddish recorded supine but using a hand support—the thinner black one. It helped a lot—the horn was still slipping downward, but it didn’t pull my finger out of position when it did so. This is progress.

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daily kaddish: for my great aunt, Severine Regine Vang

Posted on 6 October 201115 October 2011 by erin

A kaddish for the common ancestor of me and my second cousin, who’s visiting from Norway.

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daily kaddish: for Steve Jobs

Posted on 5 October 20116 October 2011 by erin

Steve Jobs’ obituary had been written thousands of times before he got around to dying. I think the heap of Apple equipment I listed above will do just fine as mine. Oh, and one more thing—

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Posts

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  • guest kaddish: velvet marquesa flicka storm, 11 august 2005–9 april 2015
  • the stones I cannot place
  • oh amy, how could you — a kaddish for amy smith
  • guest kaddish: Gudrun Fossum Vang (16 June 1905–3 April 1972)
  • occasional kaddish: for Josephine Selvig Anderson (11 April 1915– 22 January 2012)
  • and death is so much closer than it was—a kaddish for rebecca fromer
  • easy come easy go: a kaddish for adrienne cooper
  • nyt remembrances—a kaddish for departed strangers
  • guest kaddish from David Mohr—for Kimba
  • killing you loudly—a kaddish
  • anything, anything but a mystical experience
  • daily kaddish: our project’s yahrtzeit

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© 2010–22 by Mira Z. Amiras and Erin Vang (beitmalkhut.org). All rights reserved worldwide.

thank you—תודה רבה

Permission to use Lev Kogan's "Kaddish," © 1982 by Israel Brass Woodwind Publications
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