Parshas Vayechi: Embalming, Autopsies, and Cremation in Halacha - Part 1

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

how relevant is this everybody we still come from traditional homes and you're doing and everybody knows that the final rights are are always performed but there are many many details that are important to be aware of when it comes to the uh the end of life issues um so we're going to start a two segment topic we're going to talk about embalming autopsies and cremation in Hawaii actually this Shabbos it has been dedicated by shows Across America as dedicated by shows Across America as team Shabbos I'm not exactly sure what it stands for something to do with end of life issue awareness you know how the t-e-a-m you know but um so we're already starting this Wednesday night we're speaking about these three topics and bombing autopsies and cremation and these are all very relevant topics and the topics that everybody needs to be aware of let's begin with the following in this week's power so in capacity we find that yakovino passes away and we find that yakovino passes away and upon the demise of Jacob avino commands the doctors to embalm yankovino so if you look in Tarak none uh this week's passion passes that you see um we find upon the demise of yankov tries to care for Yahoo's final rights I'll play of it you guys say falls on his father's face he kisses him Yosef commands his servants the doctors office to embalm his father and the doctors and that's the question we want to talk about is it permitted for a Jew to be embalmed so you say I mean come on this is not you know Egypt we don't have pyramids who who mummifies themselves well you should know in the secular World almost everybody to some extent has some procedure of hanita done to them before

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1. 0:32how relevant is this everybody we still come from traditional homes and you're doing and everybody…
2. 5:11they would mix various spices of spices like it says they lay him in the bed…
3. 10:13people decompose faster than anywhere else in the world in Egypt and in Israel are the…
4. 14:54and a bomber a mama fire a machanet okay whatever it is and he had to…
5. 19:59year but bottom line is what happened to shawl either they burnt his possessions or they…
6. 24:36whatever you could do to speed up the decomposition to move him to where he wants…
7. 29:55that when that was a very long trip then he said it's permitted even to use…
8. 35:00one is not allowed to have a is now to be embalmed so just you know…
9. 40:09what about what about um yaakov was Jacob bones or it sounds like Yakov remains completely…
10. 44:49okay let me just quickly bring you into the next topic and we'll we'll uh proceed…

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