Jewish Burial - Why Don't Jews Get Buried in Caskets? - Ask the Rabbi Live with Rabbi Mintz

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we'll uh fast forward we'll jump over a couple of online questions to a regular here Mike Kramer is in Amarillo Texas and he's watching us from oh I I promised him I going to waave to him when he amirillo Texas how you doing nice to he says he misses us only question is why are Jews not allowed to bury their dead in caskets and why do we bury in sheets specifically I'm not sure what the most people well right I guess that's what he means it's and not um to say not and caskets is not really true cuz we do bear in caskets we don't make them fancy we bur in wooden plain wooden caskets we do not in the metal ones or stone ones and so on uh to and we don't necessarily bu in sheets they're called so there's two parts to answer that question um we don't believe in preserving the body we don't believe in preserving the body we spoke about the past that the body has to disintegrate and become built up new again after the sin of Adam and Eve we spoke a few weeks ago God said we don't want men to live forever people to live forever because they will never be able to come to his completion because uh since he sinned the body became very mundane physical and and Earthly and uh we want to person

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1. 0:00we'll uh fast forward we'll jump over a couple of online questions to a regular here…
2. 0:34um to say not and caskets is not really true cuz we do bear in caskets…
3. 1:38and and Earthly and uh we want to person to be able to come to the…
4. 2:08disintegrates the sooner the better because you want to be ready for to get up when…
5. 3:11alive again in the future we don't just thr the body like an animal dead animal…
6. 4:13head is put away from the road to show that the that body will get stand…
7. 4:43to show that we respect the body it's going to get up in the future again…
8. 5:46it so what happened was the great Rabbi gam was one of the great leaders of…
9. 6:17the very rich person he great leader was great great scholar G the son of him…
10. 7:18the ones that take care of the the bodies they that's what they take care of…

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