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Yes. Consider the Mourner's Kaddish. The Kaddishes are a family of doxologies, which is to say, short prayers of praise used to punctuate a longer service. A Kaddish can be said after any words of Torah, intrerpreted broadly. So, there is a Kaddish after study, and there are kaddishes after each section of each Jewish service. The Kaddishes themselves date back no earlier than the Babylonian exile. We know this because they are in Aramaic, and that was not the language of the Jewish community until the exile. By 1000 years ago, it was traditional for mourners to lead part of the service in the hope that God would see their piety and credit it to their deceased parents, teachers or spouses. Then, the Crusades swept across Europe, wiping out entire Jewish communities as they hurried south to liberate Jerusalem. There were, as a result, thousands of orphans, young people who barely knew the liturgy. How were they to remember their parents? One of the shorter Kaddishes was set aside as the orphan's Kaddish, easy to learn so that any orphan could lead this part of the service. That Kaddish is what has come to be known as the Mourner's Kaddish. The book Kaddish by Leon Wieseltier is an excellent source for this.

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