For Friday: Daily Prayers and
Sabbath
Judaism 101 site: jewfaq.org
http://jewfaq.org/shabbat.htm
http://jewfaq.org/liturgy.htm
Next week: Calendar and Festivals.
Week after: Finish Calendar, and
Kashrut.
Marriages…
• Mitvah #63: Be fruitful and multiply
(Genesis 1,28)
• God is matchmaker
• Consent of bride required.
Consent is given in one of 3 ways
Acceptance of money (Ring)
Contract (Ketubah)
Sexual intercourse (strongly
discouraged by the sages).
KETUBAH
www.ketubah-gallery.com/allartists1.htm
Husband’s
obligations to wife
during marriage and
divorce.
Date
• Not on Sabbath or important
festivals
• Tuesdays are often picked:
– Bible says twice that the 3rd
day was “good”.
No specific place required
• In Synagogue
• At home
• Outside
• Under the stars:
Abraham promised
offspring as numerous
as the “stars of
heaven”
Huppah
Anyone can officiate.
Rabbis have license
from govt. to perform
weddings.
2 part Ceremony
• Betrothal: KEDUSHIN accepting contract
• Wedding: NISUIN
• Ancient times, 1 year separated 2 parts
• Now both performed together.
Ceremony: Rabbi reviews Ketubah
which will be read out loud.
“Be
sanctified
to me with this
ring according
to the laws of
Moses and
Israel.”
Marriage:
• A RELIGIOUS union under the laws of the
state.
Divorce.
• Men have the right to divorce their wives.
–Infidelity, incompatibility.
• Women do not have the right to divorce.
“Get”
• A document of divorce given to the
woman.
• Rabbis made strict rules about the GET to
discourage divorce.
Get.
• Indicates woman is free to remarry.
• Without it, a woman cannot remarry.
• TRADITIONAL JUDAISM DOES NOT ACCEPT
CIVIL DIVORCE!
• Soldier may give wife conditional get before a
battle in case of capture.
Death
• “Naked I came from my mother's womb,
And naked I shall return there. The LORD
gave and the LORD has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Job 1:21
Death
• Cannot hasten death: no Euthanasia,
assisted suicide:
• Withdrawing life support is allowed.
Funerals
• Usually within 24 hours.
• Delays allowed for family to arrive.
Mourning
• Respect the dead
• Comfort the grieving.
Holy Society.
• Helps family with funeral etc.
• Pays respect to the deceased.
• Great Charity work: the dead cannot repay
them.
Shomrim
• “Keepers” of the body
– Forbidden to keep commandments, eat or
drink
– A joy the dead cannot share..
Corpse
never left alone:
• Eyes are closed
• Laid on floor.
Whole body must be buried.
• Autopsies restricted.
• No embalming.
• Organ donations are debated.
• No cremation.
Corpse
• washed
• Wrapped in simple shroud and Tallit
• Rich and Poor are equal in death.
Coffins
• Very simple if used at all
• Holes drilled in them so body can contact
the earth.
Funerals
• Body is not displayed.
Tombstones
• Sometimes not be erected for a year after
burial.
• Mourners place stones by grave
Tombstones
• Hebrew Names used
• Star of David
• Menorah
Mourning
• Different periods of mourning.
• Decreasing intensity.
1- “ANINUIT:
from death to funeral.
• “Positive” commandments annulled.
• mourner to care for deceased.
• Symbolic meal for the close family.
Advice:
• leave the family alone during mourning.
• "May the Lord comfort you with all the
mourners of Zion and Jerusalem."
2. “Shiva” “SEVEN” days
• Immediate family
• Family sits on low stools or on floor.
• Luxury items put away.
Shiva
• Mourning suspended at important
festivals.
• Sabbath in mourning.
Shloshim (Thirty)
• End of “7” period to thirtieth day since
burial.
• Parties, music etc. forbidden.
Avelut (mourning for parents).
• For a year after the death of parents
• Parties, music etc. avoided,
• First 11 months, mourner recites
KADDISH prayer every day.
Anniversary of parents death
remembered
• After a year, formal mourning is forbidden.
• Prayers may still be made on festival days.