Our father, our husband – Edi, as his friends knew him – was an entrepreneur at heart: a man of action, ideas, and courage. But above everything, family was his center and his foundation.

He lived by five principles that guided him throughout his life – the five C’s: Curiosity, Care, Commitment, Courage, Creativity.

He believed in the strength of women and in genuine equality, and saw women as full partners in spiritual life as much as in any other. He lived in many countries, but believed wholeheartedly in the Jewish people and in the Land of Israel as the natural home of our nation – and it is here that he ended his days.

After he passed, saying Kaddish mattered deeply to all of us – sons, daughters, and our mother – as a way to sanctify his memory. We approached it with respect for halachic boundaries and with the belief that everyone deserves a place to take part.

For the women in our family, that wasn’t always simple. There were moments when we were told “that’s not the custom here,” or when we were pushed behind a distant mechitza in a way that made real participation feel impossible. In moments as tender as these, those experiences made saying Kaddish complicated – and sometimes got in the way of saying it cleanly, wholeheartedly, and with an open heart.

Out of that experience, and out of our father’s entrepreneurial spirit, Kaddish Nagish was born. The project exists so that any woman can find a welcoming, respectful, halachically grounded space where she can say Kaddish with a sense of belonging and dignity.

We – Natalie, Elisha, Ariel, Avital, and our mother Eva – are certain he would have been proud.