קדיש Class Twenty One.
יתברך וישתבח וכו’ שמי’ דקודשא בריך הוא לעילא מן כל ברכתא וכו’ ונחמתא וכו’ ואמרו אמן (Class 1).
The second half of Kaddish is the people’s response to the חזן’s recitation of יתגדל ויתקדש etc.
We respond with יהא שמי’ רבה and we continue יתברך etc. until the end of חצי קדיש with ואמרו אמן.
The intermittency of Aramaic and Hebrew is explained on two levels:
1) Aramaic is lower than Hebrew and we don’t want מלאכים to know our challenges because they would condone our suffering based on our flaws.
2) Rashi’s idea that Aramaic is the ultimate Hebrew, where darkness is shown to be light and good.
The second half of Kadddish is the Bracha and hope for the times of Moshiach when we will see the good in the darkness.
