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https://yahadut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/03-14-14.jpeg16201080During the year following a parent’s death, the children should increase their Torah study, mitzva observance, and good deeds. The more they do so, the more helpful they are in saving their parent’s soul from hell and elevating it in heaven. This applies even if the parent was righteous and certainly needs no help to merit reward in the afterlife. The soul enjoys and is elevated by the good deeds the children undertake in their parent’s memory. It certainly applies if the parent was not righteous. A son in mourning is required to say Kaddish in synagogue daily to elevate his parent’s soul. If the son knows how to lead the weekday services and the congregation is agreeable, it is preferable for him to do so. It is customary to say Kaddish for only eleven months, stopping either a month or a week short of the full twelve months. This ...