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Also, I like the way everyone is treated the same in death. No one has a better casket than anyone else. The simplest one, where you return back to the earth, the way you came from, the quickest.
Also, I like the way everyone is treated the same in death. No one has a better casket than anyone else. The simplest one, where you return back to the earth, the way you came from, the quickest.
Have you ever been to a Jewish burial? It’s beautiful. The most striking item (I think only in the Orthodox world but someone will correct me if I’m wrong), is that Jews bury their own dead. That means we 100% fill in the hole in the ground. I’ve left a burial in summer drenched in sweat before. Jackets come off and blisters sometimes ensue.
No , but I’ve read about them. Don’t they bury the person ( male) with their tallit, but with the fringes cut off? I think it’s the one from their wedding . I know that someone stays with the body, until burial.
I love that part.
I the idea of Shiva, where everyone takes care of the immediate family during the mourning period of the first week, and the custom of Kaddish, and the Yahrzeit memorial each year. I like how everyone in the family gets to put a shovel of dirt over the coffin.
It’s a lot more caring and personal, than having a funeral home do it.
( That’s just me though, I’m kind of old fashioned and like older customs)
Your family member is a Jew but doesn’t practice, eats pork, etc. They wrote in their will that they want to be cremated, designated which company will cremate them and paid the company in advance. Would you still try to stop the cremation?
Not Orthodox. The Will is a legally binding document.
While cremation is opposed by Conservative Jews, a Conservative rabbi may still perform a funeral for a person who has been cremated. However, in most Conservative communities, the rabbi will not be present for the interment of the ashes. For Reform Jews, however, cremation is becoming an increasingly common practice, and most Reform rabbis will willingly perform a funeral and interment for someone who has been cremated.
For Reform Jews, however, cremation is becoming an increasingly common practice, and most Reform rabbis will willingly perform a funeral and interment for someone who has been cremated.
While it's true that cremation has become an accepted practice among many Reform Jews, the general acceptance of cremation varies on a regional basis. Reform Jews living in New York City and environs have a far lower statistical rate for the practice than elsewhere in the United States. I'm personally seeing many Reform Jews in my area returning to other more traditional Jewish practices, as well.
Maybe it is just a matter of terminology, but a will won't be read until well after the burial. I have a document that my family is aware of that requests certain things at my funeral. I don't imagine that my wishes are a binding policy. They are wishes. This isn't a DNR order.
While it's true that cremation has become an accepted practice among many Reform Jews, the general acceptance of cremation varies on a regional basis. Reform Jews living in New York City and environs have a far lower statistical rate for the practice than elsewhere in the United States. I'm personally seeing many Reform Jews in my area returning to other more traditional Jewish practices, as well.
No matter what the situation is, NYC nearly always goes upstream while nearly everyone else goes downstream. If there were awards given for making 'gurnicht mit gurnicht', 'kvetching', 'tsuris' and 'meshugas' NYC would win first prize.
'gurnicht mit gurnicht' = nothing from nothing
'kvetching' = complaining
'tsuris' =troubles or making troubles
'meshugas' = crazy or crazy making
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