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In recent days, Rabbi Shmuel Plafker has found himself contemplating the haunting liturgy chanted during Judaism’s high holiday prayer services: On Rosh Hashana it is inscribed... how many shall be born and how many shall die ... who by water and who by fire ... who by earthquake and who by plague.
Plafker, the chaplain of the Hebrew Free Burial Association at Staten Island’s Mount Richmond Cemetery, admits that he never thought much about plagues. “It was just a word in my prayer book,” said the Brooklyn native.
Then came COVID-19.
What a sad sad story!
Something that (probably) none of us ever contemplated
Its a mitzvah that they are providing a dignified end for those who don't have the means.
Amen!
Yes it is
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