Seymour and I are now the core of a small group that has re-established a daily minyan at our synagogue. (It lapsed several years ago….) We are both becoming adept at leading the service. We use a new prayer book that, during Tefillah, refers to avot v’emahot [fathers and mothers] – I like that! This means that we must plan Monday-Thursday to be free from 5:15-6:15 p.m. … (No, we don’t follow the sunset for starting times!) …
Saying kaddish for my mother almost daily has given me a new sense of having once again a spiritual dimension in my life. And meeting our needs (Seymour recites kaddish for his brother), we are also helping other synagogue members fill their needs. Those who wanted to say kaddish were going to other, mostly Conservative, synagogues for the purpose. Now they can come to their own synagogue.