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8/10 May you have a Healthy, Happy and Peaceful Week. Reply

Rabbi Posner, it's NOT always possible for Jews to be buried in The Holy Land, since Jews live all over the world, and are not always able to travel, and I read something about Muslims burying their dead ASAP! Reply

8/10 on question four, I thought it was all of above, I knew we do not bury the dead on the Shabbat. The day of the death, we clean the body, we do not bury the body.
Well I learned something new again. Thank you. Reply

8/10. I did not realize that cremation is absolutely forbidden. It is good that I took this quiz now, before this becomes an issue. Reply

B''H,

Rabbi Posner thanks!

1)-Would you also give us a quiz about the actual prayers during the funeral and ha Shiva period?

Regarding the ideal burial place, the question, that I seem to keep failing to answer correctly, we all can not be buried in the Holy Land (the ideal burial place).

2)- Would you kindly please give us a quiz about the process of burial (not in the 'ideal place' but wherever we are) and how the body must be placed in the grave etc (i.e. Head towards the Holy Land), etc, would you please give us a quiz about it?

We all have to go through the process and it would be good to have a more clear insight about it, just my personal opinion, thank you!

Best regards, it is erev shabbat so: It is ''Time to focus on G-D'' of Ab'raham, and Yīsraʾel, (Ancient Hebrew).

B''H Reply

Error: Shiv'ah means "seven"; NOT, as stated in the quiz, "sitting". The name reflects the fact that the seven relatives of the deceased who are formally classed as mourners (father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, and spouse) must "sit" in their formal state of mourning for a period of SEVEN DAYS. The seven days include the day of the funeral (usually less than a full day), and ending on the morning of day 7. They should not leave the house in which they are mourning, except to attend services in the Synagogue on Shabbat, when mourning is carried out in private only, not in public. Thus, they "sit" for a period of Shiv'ah (seven) days. Reply

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Not bad. Reply

10/10! i think this is the first time! thank you rav posner and have a great shabbos! Reply

I scored 10/10 because I was my mother's caregiver until the very end. Reply

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You are awesome; I remember you in my prayers daily! Reply

10/10 - the explanations were very interesting - thank you Reply

Thanks Rabbi Posner. Very eye-opening about a couple of points that I did not know.

Kind regards. Reply

8/10 Thank you for these quizzes. I did well on this quiz. Take Care and have a Healthy, Happy and Safe week. Reply

Thank you Rabbi Posner for giving me a deeper understanding of the Torah's mandate observance of life after life. Peace and blessings be unto you and the Chabad.org family.

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9/10 some answers i knew and some i guessed right Reply