During Jewish rites of mourning, dietary practices serve as both comfort to the individual in the face of death and a collective eschatology based on a medieval and Kabbalistic perception. The data gathered during two field studies, one carried out from 1988 to 1998 and the second between 1999 and 2012 in different Jewish milieu in France and the United States emphasize the evolution of food behaviors, the factors of this evolution and the function of various meals and symbolic food in the remembrance of the Dead.