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4. Support with your spirit. If you have no words, send light. Visualize that school and those children in bright sunlight and playing and happy and carefree. Visualize hearts being held and healed. Take a quiet moment and open your heart to those children and families and staff and your world. We are always more connected than we realize.

If you want words and can’t find any – perhaps any of these will help:

(My personal comfort)

Noah’s family is Jewish – This is a prayer shared by Katie -

There’s a prayer that is said every week called the Kaddish, or the Mourner’s Kaddish. It doesn’t specifically mention the dead but that’s it’s purpose, we say it to honor the dead. It is as follows, in the phonetic Hebrew, then in English.

Yit-gadal v’yit-kadash sh’may raba b’alma dee-v’ra che-ru-tay, ve’yam-lich mal-chutay b’chai-yay-chon uv’yo-may-chon uv-cha-yay d’chol beit Yisrael, ba-agala u’vitze-man ka-riv, ve’imru amen.
Y’hay sh’may raba me’varach le-alam uleh-almay alma-ya.

Yit-barach v’yish-tabach, v’yit-pa-ar v’yit-romam v’yit-nasay, v’yit-hadar v’yit-aleh v’yit-halal sh’may d’koo-d’shah, b’rich hoo. layla (ool-ayla)* meen kol beer-chata v’she-rata, toosh-b’chata v’nay-ch’mata, da-a meran b’alma, ve’imru amen.

Y’hay sh’lama raba meen sh’maya v’cha-yim aleynu v’al kol Yisrael, ve’imru amen.

O’seh shalom beem-romav, hoo ya’ah-seh shalom aleynu v’al kol Yisrael, ve’imru amen.

*Say on Shabbat

English
Magnified and sanctified be G-d’s great name in the world which He created according to His will. May he establish His kingdom during our lifetime and during the lifetime of Israel. Let us say, Amen.
May G-d’s great name be blessed forever and ever.

Blessed, glorified, honored and extolled, adored and acclaimed be the name of the Holy One, though G-d is beyond all praises and songs of adoration which can be uttered. Let us say, Amen.

May there be peace and life for all of us and for all Israel. Let us say, Amen.

Let He who makes peace in the heavens, grant peace to all of us and to all Israel. Let us say, Amen.

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There are also words for mourners, things that you would say TO those who lost a child, rather than a general prayer of mourning, if that makes sense. It is:

Ha’makom yenahem etkhem betokh she’ar avelei Tziyonvi’Yerushalayim)

May God console you among the other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem

From Ali Martell:

Translation of “E-l Malei Rachamim”

O G-d, full of mercy, Who dwells on high,
grant proper rest on the wings of the Divine Presence -

in the lofty levels of the holy and the pure ones,
who shine like the glow of the firmament -

for the soul of Noah

who has gone on to his world,

 

because, without making a vow,
I will contribute to charity in remembrance of his soul.

May his resting place be in the Garden of Eden -

therefore may the Master of Mercy
shelter him in the shelter of His wings for Eternity,
and may He bind his soul in the Bond of Life.

Hashem is his heritage,
and may he repose in peace on his resting place.

Now let us respond: Amen.

Also from Ali:  Selected Psalms to Be Recited Following the Passing (linked instead of pasted because the graphics are Hebrew and beautiful)