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In the Eastern Ashkenazi liturgy, the prayer is usually chanted by a chazzan for the ascension of the souls of the dead on the following occasions: during the funeral; at an unveiling of the tombstone; Yizkor (Remembrance) service on the four of the Jewish festivals, Yom Kippur, Shemini Atzeret, and the last day of Pesach and Shavuot; on the Yahrzeit on a day when there is public reading from ...
In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland. Throughout Jewish history, each Jewish community throughout the world has established a chevra kadisha – a holy society – whose sole function is to ensure dignified treatment of the deceased following Jewish law, custom, and tradition. Men prepare the bodies of men; women prepare those ...
Catholic funeral service at St Mary Immaculate Church, Charing Cross. A Catholic funeral is carried out in accordance with the prescribed rites of the Catholic Church.Such funerals are referred to in Catholic canon law as "ecclesiastical funerals" and are dealt with in canons 1176–1185 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, [1] and in canons 874–879 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [2]
I grew up Catholic, and my wife was raised Jewish. As adults, we have both chosen a life free of organized religion . We are raising our children agnostic , with the option to choose a spiritual ...
At the funeral, mourners wear an outer garment that is torn before the procession in a ritual known as keriah. In some traditions, mourners wear a black ribbon that is cut in place of an everyday garment. [3] [4] The torn article is worn throughout the entirety of shiva. Typically, the seven days begin immediately after the deceased has been ...
The content of the ketubah is in essence a two-way contract that formalizes the various requirements by Halakha (Jewish law) of a Jewish husband vis-à-vis his wife. The Jewish husband takes upon himself in the ketubah the obligation that he will provide to his wife three major things: clothing, food and conjugal relations, [16] and also that ...
According to the non-traditional view, in the Bible the wife is treated as a possession owned by her husband, [25] but later Judaism imposed several obligations on the husband, effectively giving the wife several rights and freedoms; [25] indeed, being a Jewish wife was often a more favourable situation than being a wife in many other cultures ...
Jewish marriage certificate, dated 1740 (Brooklyn Museum) Moroccan Jewish women. Marriage, domestic violence and divorce were discussed by Jewish sages of the Medieval world. Marriage is an important institution in Judaism. The wife/mother is called "akeret habayit" in Hebrew, which in English