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Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses the custom of silence at Jewish funerals during his weekly class.
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during a funeral in general or particularly a time of a tragic funeral like the ones that took place today in jerusalem is it insensitive to not have a personal moment of silence during the funeral wherever you may be in the world in sense of that moment of silence not to have a moment of silence meaning stop somebody wherever they are not to have a moment of silence to participate well that's not a jewish custom moment of silence that's a non-jewish cause to moment of silence so it's not really uh it's not insensitive because it's not even a jewish thing so i don't have to worry about it today funerals have changed very much some funerals today are uh full of jokes and uh laughing maybe katja's funeral was it was like an entertainment it was a broadway show was this but i've noticed that even
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- 0:00during a funeral in general or particularly a time of a tragic funeral like the ones…
- 0:30of silence that's a non-jewish cause to moment of silence so it's not really uh it's…
- 1:01uh people who are younger and people even in some more observant type of people it…
- 1:31about jewish one was all about uh feeling the uh missing person who will not be…
- 2:01the light of things but maybe very serious about the about what life's all about and…
- 2:31and uh it's even for the uh honor of the of the deceased it's not the…
- 3:01might evoke some kind of laughter from the audience but that's not it's not the main…
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