This may or may not be specific to only Jewish burial customs, but I wonder why some cover the eyes and mouth of the Jewish deceased, at burial? PLEASE! ONLY SERIOUS answers! Please and thank you!
2007-06-17 15:36:21 · 3 answers · asked by º§€V€Nº 6 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I don't know where you heard that- but it is most defintely NOT a Jewish practice to cover the eyes and mouth with clay.
After death the body is cleaned and purified (Tahara), wrapped in a burial shroud and buried (outside of Israel we put the enshrouded body into a pine coffin, in Israel no coffin.) No makeup is on the body, no clothes, no dirt- and definitely no clay!
2007-06-18 22:36:19 · answer #1 · answered by allonyoav 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is that really true? I'm Jewish and I've never heard that.
2007-06-17 22:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So he won't turn into a zombie and shoot missiles at the Lebanese.
2007-06-17 22:44:56 · answer #3 · answered by Joe L 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋