A person in my family married someone who is Jewish. The Jewish person wants to be burried in a Jewish cemetery rather than be burried with their husband.
Why? What difference would it make once you’re dead?
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A person in my family married someone who is Jewish. The Jewish person wants to be burried in a Jewish cemetery rather than be burried with their husband.
Why? What difference would it make once you’re dead?
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1) There are Jewish laws regarding burial, and non-Jewish cemeteries do not adhere to those laws. Thus one who wants to be burried (i.e. the last act on this world) in accordance with Jewish law, will want to be burried in a Jewish cemetery. One example of Jewish law is that the body must be immersed in a Mikvah for something called a ‘Tahara’…
2) Just as someone was or wanted to be part of his/her community when alive, so too does s/he want to rest and be remembered within that same community.
@dryBri – they also sometimes pour a continuous stream of water which is considered like a Mikvah… I gave the most extreme example of what they do. There are many other things they do.
By the way, if you ever get a chance to do one, you’ll see how we Jews revere the dead. According to kabbalah, anyone who helps perform a Tahara is immediately guaranteed Gan Eden and Olam Haba!
No difference at all. It’s just stupid religion.
Zombie Jewpocalypse.
lol random panther XD
Zombie Jewpocolypse, I’m gonna start using that one, that’s good, lol.
I don’t know. I assume it’s so that you are buried with other Jews, rather han Gentiles…. Which would also remain as to why we would like it if you married Jew too, so you don’t have to be spiritually separated once dead,.
Easter or as I like to call it: Night of the living Jews
Nothing.
I mean my Great-Great grandmother was buried in a Jewish cemetery because it was a tradition to be buried with people who had shared you faith and culture. Her daughter (my great grandmother) on the other hand, wanted to be buried with her Christian husband in a cemetery in Kentucky (of all places!).
It’s really not a big deal…..some Jews prefer to be buried in a Jewish cemetery and others don’t really care either way. It’s just a matter of personal preference and how you feel about Jewish tradition.
Awwwww, Zvi, I didn’t know they immersed CORPSES at the mikvah! Next time I go, (around Yom Kippur next year) I am going to be seriously creeped out…rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Don’t you laugh when the hearst goes by
For you may be the next to die.
They’ll wrap in a bloody sheet
and lay you under six feet deep.
The worms go in
the worms go out.
The worms play a card game
On your snout.
Your body turns into
A mosey green
The puss comes out
Like rich whipped cream.
It doesn’t matter what you do the worms win in the end.