Do Jewish People Get Cremated
Do Jewish People Get Cremated . Lyons’ cemetery is hoping to compete with cremation on cost as well as values. I explain that the jewish tradition is sensitive to the status of the deceased. Melissa Vera Peterson Hollywood Forever from hollywoodforever.com To open the casket and allow people to look at the deceased is to turn the comforters into spectators and the deceased into an “it.” It is precisely out of these beliefs in the eternity of the soul and the sanctity of the body that jewish law has demanded interment and rejected both. Honoring jewish beliefs means ruling out options like sea burials, humanist burials, or the practice of cremation, written in the torahs and rabbinic writings.