Death and Mourning in Judaism

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This paper shows how death and the rituals pertaining to mourning, are carried out in Judaism. The paper also examines the idea of an afterlife in the Jewish religion, as well as other practices surrounding death.

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The Importance of Life
Action: The Life Breath of Judaism
The Afterlife: A Secondary Concern
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"There are, however, a few promising, if ambiguous, references to the persistence of life in some form after the death of the corporeal human body. Isaiah tells us that "the dead shall live; their bodies shall rise" (26:19); Daniel foretells that "many that sleep in the dust will arise, some to everlasting life and others to everlasting disgrace" (12:2). Perhaps contact with peoples for whom the afterlife was important (the Egyptians, for example, and the Christians), coupled with the Jews' fervent passion for life itself, perpetuated the growth of a belief in life after death. Whichever the case, many Jews today take for granted the existence of an afterlife, the nature of which is based on God's judgement of one's good deeds in this life."

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