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<DIV>Last night at the chevra kadisha seuda a lady who is already a
grandmother asked me a somewhat sad question. She told me that both her
parents had died within nine months, when she was 14 years old, and they had not
had a tahara. In fact they had had open caskets with a public viewing (which of
course we would consider a bizayon). She asked me if this meant that her parents
could not rest in peace? A poignant question. </DIV>
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<DIV>Does it matter to the niftar really? I don't know.</DIV>
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<DIV>I reassured her that whatever discomfort had been caused to them by not
having a proper Jewish burial no longer mattered and was long since over and
done with, they are in the next world now. I also reassured her by telling her
that in a civilized country she can assume her parents were washed and dressed
before burial, even goyim do so, so she should set her mind to rest. I should
have added that even though they weren't frum, her parents are having nachas
from seeing her and her children and grandchildren living frum
lives.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby Katz<BR>=============</B><BR>Romney -- good values, good
family, good
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