Death and the Dead
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There is a shared foundation in all of Jewish culture with respect to death, the primary and most influential principle of which concerns the impurity of the dead. From this belief derives the need to distance the dead from places of human habitation and to confine them to separate areas set aside for them: cemeteries. The dead were buried with a ceremony—the funeral—and their relatives, the mourners, practiced customs of mourning anchored in halakhah.
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Death and the Dead
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- There is a shared foundation in all of Jewish culture with respect to death, the primary and most influential principle of which concerns the impurity of the dead. From this belief derives the need to distance the dead from places of human habitation and to confine them to separate areas set aside for them: cemeteries. The dead were buried with a ceremony—the funeral—and their relatives, the mourners, practiced customs of mourning anchored in halakhah.
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- Death and the Dead
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- dead
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- death
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- The Burial Society
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- The Cemetery
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- Death and the Dead
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- Budapest
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- Poznań
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- Prague
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- Tchernichowsky, Sha’ul
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- Tkhines
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- Tombstones
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- Warsaw
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