Kaddish
 
Moshe Ben-Chaim
 
 
Reader: This is a likely to be a complicated issue.But let me try. When someone is raised non observant and their father dies, 20 years later they are BA'AL tesheuva, and has never had anyone do Kaddish,what can be done to set this right?
 
 
Mesora: One can say "orphan's kaddish" even 20 years later. However, it is not said so as to "set something straight." It is said as a method of an orphan accepting God's justice. We don't believe that we can do something for the deceased, although many Jews do ascribe to this. Man's ultimate judgment is based on his own life's deeds, not on his orphans' kaddish recital or Tehillim learning. The passage "ish becheto yumas", "A man in his own sin will he die" teaches us that God's criteria of judgment are limited exclusively to the exclusive scope of that individual's merits.


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