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Posts Tagged ‘Greek death ritual’

WATCHING, WASHING, WRAPPING AND TALKING TO THE DEAD

By Donald Friedman | December 12, 2022

My partner, a very smart and level-headed woman, routinely paid large sums by corporate leaders to help them strategize, recently informed me she had volunteered to spend hours minutely washing an old woman’s corpse in preparation for burial. It is a Jewish ritual called Tahara. After the cleaning, the body was dressed in a white…

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