Hazkara Reminders

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The Hazkara view is a specialized reading of the Reminders module, dedicated to annual commemorations of deaths (Hazkarot, or Yahrzeit in Yiddish).

Route: /app/rappels then view selector → Hazkara

The context

In the Jewish tradition, the anniversary of a death (in Hebrew date) is commemorated every year by:

• The recitation of the Kaddish by the children or relatives.
• The lighting of a memorial candle (ner neshama).
• A study in memory of the deceased.
• An offering or a tsedaka in the deceased's name.

For a community, tracking these dates is essential: notifying the relatives in time, organizing the reading of the Kaddish at the service, offering a Limoud in memory of the deceased.

The Unisoft Hazkara view centralizes all these dates for your organization and tells you who to contact for each commemoration.

Where the data comes from

The Hazkara view is not entered by hand. It derives automatically from two sources:

1. The deceased contacts: for each contact marked as deceased in your base (Death card of the Info tab), Unisoft calculates the Hebrew date of death and the annual commemoration.
2. The personalized reminders linked to a deceased contact: if you have manually created a reminder attached to a deceased contact, it will also appear here.

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For a Hazkara to appear correctly

On the deceased contact's profile (Main Information tab, Death card), enter at minimum:

• The date of death (Gregorian — the Hebrew date is calculated automatically)
• The deceased's Hebrew first name
• Ideally the Hebrew first names of the parents (required for the liturgical use of the Kaddish)

These fields are described on the Main information tab page.

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Imported historical Hazkarot (old collection)

If your base comes from an old version of Unisoft or from a migration from another solution, the Hazkara view may display in parallel entries from an old reminders collection. These historical entries remain viewable but are no longer editable or creatable: all new reminders now go through the standard creation described in Reminders. If you want to modify a historical Hazkara, recreate it via the Add a Reminder button and delete the old one.

Anatomy of the page

The Hazkara view reuses the same framework as the Reminders view:

1. Top bar: search by contact, view selector (Reminders / Hazkara / Birthdays).
2. Central table: the list of upcoming commemorations.
3. Global action: Export button (CSV).

Unlike the Reminders view, the Hazkara view does not expose Active / Completed tabs: by nature, a Hazkara returns every year and has no notion of "completed".

The table columns

Column	Content
Hebrew Date	Hebrew day and month of the commemoration (e.g.: 15 Tishrei). The year is not displayed because the Hazkara returns every year.
Deceased	Last name and first name of the deceased contact concerned by the commemoration.
To remind (Contacts)	List of contacts to notify (typically: children, spouse, siblings of the deceased). Each name is clickable to open their profile.
Reminder Type	Grouped Profile (automatic Hazkara taken from the deceased's profile, with multiple contacts to notify grouped) or Individual Reminder (manual personalized reminder attached to a contact).
Note / Info	Free text — comes either from the manual reminder note, or from an administrator message configured at the organization level.

Two types of Hazkarot

Grouped Profile

This is the most frequent case. When a contact has been marked as deceased, the Hazkara appears once in the table, and the To remind (Contacts) column lists all the relatives of the deceased to notify (determined via the family links registered on the deceased's profile).

Example:

Hebrew Date	Deceased	To remind	Type
12 Shevat	Mordehaï COHEN	David Cohen, Sarah Cohen, Raphaël Cohen	Grouped Profile

A single entry for Mordehaï COHEN, three contacts to notify.

Individual Reminder

When you have manually created a reminder attached to a deceased contact (via the Add a Reminder button of the classic Reminders view), it appears here as Individual Reminder.

Useful for special cases:

• A member wants to be notified personally of the Hazkara of a grandfather who is not in the base.
• The organization tracks the commemoration of a former rabbi or important figure without a "family" contact to notify.

Filter by contact

The Search a contact search bar at the top left lets you filter the table. Two possible uses:

• Enter a deceased's name: displays only the Hazkarot concerning them.
• Enter a relative's name: displays only the Hazkarot where this relative is in the To remind list — handy to prepare a call to a congregant who has several upcoming commemorations.

CSV export

The Export button at the top right downloads a CSV file with all the table columns.

Format: export_rappels_DD_MM_YYYY_HH_mm.csv.

Typical uses:

• Prepare the Kaddish planning for a month or quarter in advance.
• Print the list for the Shabbat service.
• Send to the Rabbanim to prepare the memory Limoudim.

Best practices

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Suggested monthly routine

At the beginning of each Hebrew month (Rosh Hodesh):

1. Open the Hazkara view.
2. Filter the commemorations of the current month.
3. Prepare the calls or messages to the relatives concerned.
4. Anticipate the announcements to make at the service.

You can also create a Personal recurring Each Rosh Hodesh reminder (classic Reminders view) to never forget this routine.

Automatic sending to relatives

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Automatic notification of Hazkarot

As the Hebrew Hazkara date approaches, Unisoft automatically sends a message (SMS_OU_EMAIL) to the relatives of the deceased attached to their profile (parents, children, siblings according to family links), as well as an internal notification to the organization's manager.

Precise behavior:

• Trigger delay: by default, sending starts 10 days before the date. This delay (and several successive reminder stages) is configurable per organization via the RappelHazkara parameter on the configuration side — contact support to adjust.
• Message content: reminder of the Hebrew date, time range (from the sunset of the previous day to the sunset of the day, in your city's local time), organization signature and manager's contact details.
• Anti-duplicate: each send is tracked by a unique identifier combining the deceased, the reminder stage and the Hebrew year — no duplicate resending for the same year.
• Mute: a silence flag on the reminder lets you completely disable sending (useful for a deceased whose relatives asked not to be notified). The table lets you visualize and toggle this state.
• Sending channel: type SMS_OU_EMAIL — Unisoft sends an SMS if the phone number is available, otherwise an email.

If you want to personalize the message beyond the standard template, you can supplement by creating a targeted message campaign (see Message Campaigns).

What the Hazkara view does not do

• No modification from this view. To correct a Hazkara's date, you must go to the deceased's profile and modify the date of death. To modify the contacts to notify, it's the family structure of the profile that determines the list.
• No notion of Active / Completed. A Hazkara returns every year — there is nothing to "complete".

Special cases

• Approximate Hebrew date: if you only know the Gregorian date of death, Unisoft calculates the corresponding Hebrew date. For deaths occurring at night (after sunset), think about adjusting manually: in Jewish tradition, the day begins the previous evening.
• Hebrew leap year (Adar I / Adar II): for a deceased who died in Adar during a non-leap year, the usage of your tradition (Sephardic / Ashkenazi) determines whether the Hazkara is commemorated in Adar I, Adar II, or both during leap years. Unisoft does not decide for you — the date displayed is calculated by @hebcal/core according to the standard algorithm.
• Deceased without relatives in your base: the commemoration appears anyway, but the To remind column displays No contact. You can still track it for the liturgical programming.

Going further

• Reminders — the main view of the module and reminder creation
• Birthday Reminders — the view dedicated to birthdays
• Main information tab — where to enter the Death fields of a contact