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asked 8 years ago

Question for the rabbi. In the past, they used to bury bodies for a year, and then they would collect the bones and bury them in ancestral graves, as explained in Tractate Mook. Why is this not practiced today and in this way they save space?


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מיכי Staff answered 8 years ago
A good suggestion (I did not examine in detail the nature of that ancient custom). In any case, if you are asking sociologically – today they do not change anything from what is practiced here, even if it could be changed for fear of reform.

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מושון replied 8 years ago

Are practices that have their origins in the Talmud also considered reform from a public perspective? I only know of examples of innovations that do not appear in Jewish sources from the past

מיכי Staff replied 8 years ago

What about women going up to the Torah and reading the scroll? What about dancing with the bride on your shoulders? Or girls dancing in the vineyards in front of all Israel?

מוש replied 8 years ago

indeed

ישי replied 8 years ago

Today there are hospitals so there is no need for vineyards.

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