This page will be devoted to the memory of souls who have passed. ' Yahrzeit' is a Hebrew word meaning remembrance. A special candle is lit on the anniversary of the passing of souls and this page will give the dates of their passing so that those of us who practice the tradition will be able to light a candle in their memory. Some of those we will be remembering will be:

Shakespeare,   Miles Davis,  Charles Bukowski, Artie Shaw, Albert Einstein, Carl Sandburg, Montgomery Clift, Anna Magnani, Cantinflas, Christopher Columbus, Diego Velasquez,  Walt Whitman,  William Blake, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk, Cervantes and Don Quixote, Beowulf, Picasso, Goya, Orson Welles, Fanny Farmer, Caesar Romero as The Joker, Burgess Meredith as The Penguin, of course Abraham Lincoln, Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dali, Bud Powell, Ayn Rand, Hemingway, Jack London, Hunter S. Thompson, Uncle Tom, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, Warren Zevon, Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, Ethel Waters, John Cassavetes, Stephen Crane for 'The Red Badge of Courage' Isaac Newton, Jascha Heifetz and Vladimir Horowitz, Charles Martel who defeated the Muslims at Tours, Moses, Elia Kazan, Houdini ( Erich Weiss) Al Jolson and Judy Garland, Boris Karloff, Wes Montgomery, Jeff Hyman, Captain Wolf Larsen, Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster, The Great Benny Leornard and the Great Barney Ross, Buffalo Bill, Billie Holiday and Lester Young, 'Santiago', Hemingway's 'Old Man' from the 1952 novella, Golda Meir, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hank Williams and Phil Ochs, Hurricane Tommy Jackson  of Rockaway Beach,  Corporal Izzy Schwartz also know as 'The Ghetto Midget' or ' The Army Phantom' Flyweight Champion 1924-27 and a good pal of mine, Rembrandt the great, the late Floyd Patterson of New Paltz, NY, George and Ira Gershwin, John Wayne for' The Searchers, Red River and Stagecoach...thanks, the great James Agee, Horatio Nelson  Admiral of the British Fleet at Trafalgar, Johnny Cash, Mickey Spillane, William Wordsworth, Pistol Pete Maravich,Saul Bellow, Goya. 'Groucho'

 More will be added and the dates of remembrance will be assigned.