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The month of shiva and shloshim is a liminal time, said Anita Diamant, the author of “Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew.”

After shiva comes shloshim, a period of less intense mourning in which observant Jews leave the home but continue to observe some restrictions, like avoiding music and dancing.

Now, in a glass-walled conference room, everyone gathered again for shloshim, the traditional Jewish ritual marking the end of 30 days of mourning.

“It felt like this disease was slowly taking away everything he loved,” she said in an empty hotel lobby before the shloshim ceremony.

The Menorah lighting comes less than a week after the end of Shloshim, a 30-day mourning period observed by Jews following a death.