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DEATH & MOURNING: Jewish Bereavement

Judaism encourages us to acknowledge our mortality and embrace the sacredness of life on earth. Jewish law has developed a system of mourning that honors the dead and comforts the bereaved, from a public and dignified eulogy to burial in a plain wooden casket to the week long ritual of shiva.

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