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Sources and Significance of Halacha and Minhagim for Tahara (Rabbi Ben Sugerman)

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okay start personal and then we'll go obviously much more Global how long have I been involved in doing so the answers over 20 years at least you went to the funeral home yesterday kind of know the picture in terms of what I'm describing to have a mental image of it but what happened was is that I was above my first tahara didn't do much and my first sing as most the time whenever I have a newcomer come on board together with me I tell them the same thing another words do more observation don't as much involvement as you're comfortable with what's another word right now you're you're looking you're observing and obviously the more you do with the more comfortable you'll be with it so that was me at the time and that night obviously it's impactful so that night when I went to bed so I had one of those nightmares that like I'll never I'll never be able to like and that night when I went to bed so sleepy this up if you dream but basically the person was on the table and the person started yelling at the because I wasn't doing things correctly so and from that point going forward like I was have that image in my head of like it's a terrible nightmare but obviously like you got to do it correctly meaning there's a right way to do in the wrong way to do it and so would I like to speak about for the next 30 minutes so there abouts is basic idea of what is the right way to do in what is the wrong way to do it and where does all this come from Main anxieties were going to be sitting over the course of this morning that there's nowhere in the toe where is this is the way you do with this is why you don't do it meaning a lot of them and hug him and again I'm so I'm glad that you have a basic familiarity with what what I'm about to talk about allowed is Menachem that we do don't have like any real sources in the Torah and now I do then I have service in the tour but not even the cameras will knives of the Shannara meaning these are Traditions that are passed down one generation to the next and so what I'd like to discuss is what's what is the right way is the right way and what what can I trace back so I put Research into this and so for the next 30 minutes when I'm going to share with you is the little bit that I found in terms of just some basic ideas basic sources of where will this come so let's let's begin what's going on the way okay  the military is not a minute in other words there is a mitzvah sorry to bury the first person in the first person meaning where's the where's the First Source in terms of where's the first where's the first time that we see burial take place in the taro  I don't have any another word another word for unreal it realizes that he has an obligation he's Bound by the Torah to Barry and so consolidate our goes through an extensive narrative in terms of this is what I'm having to do see if I have aeroplani very sorry but that's just burial and really in the tower that's all you going to find meaning the only thing going to find the Torres the actual Act of Ariel but everything that we do another was everything that you saw yesterday on your field trip and everything that you from that point going forward like where is that where does that come from and why why do we do so many things that we do all the things that you saw yesterday just speak it out what what was the just think that you that that you noticed yesterday on your field trip what was strange eggs in vinegar what else pottery  what anything else that yep that was like the thing that needs the body around the room did you say went to the tahara room at Levitt Weinstein do they have a hydraulic lift are the one that makes you make phone  write the name of a little bit strange  text should and if it's not strange hopefully by the end of this morning send it out to very strange and hopefully box mind enough to spend a little bit better there is there's no there's no instruction manual in the gum are in the tongue the tells us exactly what we're supposed to do when we're not supposed to do so the First Source I found in the mission is meaning this is really it meaning the First Source that speaks about some of the some of the things that we do is emission shop for some basically somebody dies in Chaves so never never done never good day to the path on but I'm Shabbos it presents a problem what's the problem with Dinan Shabbos  if they can't do the better on Chaves let's go one step 4 what else can you do in Java can't even handle the Bobby what's the status of the body on Shabbos what is moxa fishing shop is it take a look now in the First Source in the first page so the mission over here described so what can you do now with a Bonnie on shop so you can't physically pick up the body and move the body that's not absolute meaning the are occasions when you're like to do that but what can you do with a body on Shabbos of the mission rights over some cold surface so you can take hair of the body meaning the mission goes on your oil in the body and you can also wash the body another one you can pour water over the body also available but you can't move the body meaning of one of the one of the great Mysteries behind books a ton of History it's just true books that means you can't move it another word for you can lean on Acropolis you just can't move it so another words that same thing with the body body smoke some but you can pour oil on it you can pour water on it something as a comet of metallic all if the body is on a pillow so you can remove the pillow system mission Mister says you can room remove the telephone on to that even though that means that the head is gonna now be lying on the floor any ideas why you'd be removing a pillow possibility I don't know if this was discussed for the yesterday I guess that's who it's worthwhile to go over somebody immediately after death meaning we were talking about Ground Zero meaning immediately after the moment of death what are you supposed to do with the body isn't the end of this yesterday so what you supposed to do with the body is just supposed to take it off the mattress and put it down on the ground how do you say this now and any guesses as to why there should be give me even more rational explanation when when when the body is on the mattress what happens when you lie down when I lie down the mattress for a while what happens  and and also what about what about the Heat and warm  other words another word to Mattress produces heat and warmth and what's going to end up happening is that he hit you up nothing cover over the top doesn't even a better job hitting you up but basically what he went does his eat you up a post-mortem immediately after death what you want to do is remove all heat whatsoever because he is terrible for the body when he does to the body is right the body start decompose so the men against us to take the body into proving onto the floor and basically have no heat around whatsoever so that the body will keep as much as a one of the things that modern modern man has accomplished is Refrigeration in terms of the in terms of death and burial like we don't relate as well as what used to be many one used to be is that Amelie after that you got to bury the body as quickly as possible up again just as a is it just an interesting aside do you know that the calendar and the end and the Jewish it and the Jewish holidays can be manipulated by the common Corner was it right meaning that the Oriental all the amount over based on rosh chodesh and Rush orders can be manipulated the rabbi's went out of the way to make sure that young people never pause out on a Friday or a  for Sunday people will never fall on a Friday and Sunday and one of the reasons why the rabbi's did that is so that you will never have two consecutive days where you cannot bury  yolotti bearing out to beat you cannot be on your paper much like you can't bear and chop is Yom Kippur the robbers went out of the way to make sure that there would not be a contiguous Yom Kippur and Shabbos because if that would have happened so you could be looking at two possible days without burial what about real that's just simply it's it's not going to work meaning of the body just going to decompose and it's going to be it's going to be a real lack of covered for the for the dead so the mission that tells us okay just over the First Source First Source I found that discusses some of the practices of the Haro is the mission shops Mission shop is says that you could watch the body can put oil in the body you can remove the pillow from under the head so it speaks to some of the ideas about burial about the tahara okay but that's just a First Source can you turn the page I'm sure this was explained to you yesterday but let's spend a couple of minutes now going over this there are basically three parts to every tahara hey yesterday first part of the second part of the where is purification the body we put that we put the body in a Mayflower third part of the tower is dressing of the body and that's really it in those of the three parts of every tahara and so what what I'm going to try to do over the nether the next couple minutes is I'm going to give you some idea some sources some reasons explanations and terms it in terms of why it is and terms the the shards that go over the eyes and mouth I don't have a source meaning I'll have I have explanations their traditions in terms of why we do but I don't start sometimes a white white why that is I'm in terms of putting putting the the dirt Body Rider tourism on the body so once again it's a cousin that we do eggs and vinegar that I have a source another ones I found a source of that so some of the things I could trace back for many years and some of them I don't and so let's go over okay number one first thing that we do with in terms of processes that we watch the body this can be traced back to many many years ago the basis of already talks about the bass lc4 thoroughly an hour of Cairo lived in the 15th century so he was born in the 15th century live in the 16th century so he is one of the early a sources I can find and the truth that matters is 8 people somebody even earlier who discusses the practice of washing the body now again if you look back at like one the first page you already saw the mishnah there's an idea we wash the body in the mistress says that even on Shabbos even though we can't move the body but you can pour water over the body already in the mission there's this idea of watching the body why do we wash the body so the besos have rights to father and I'm going to translate obviously a social Yakuza I'm the total all the talking to Rochelle but they seem true first Berkeley pass up so the base OC fights in the name of the Caldwell you can see in the biography here was from Fast and the 14th century so he writes that we have a custom where we wash the body in order to remove the smell meaning as part of respect for the dead so what we do is we watch the money because we do not want the body to smell and why do we not want the body smell meaning ultimately when all said and done body's got to be buried on the ground the body's going to decompose so he goes on to write shallow you could still too low because what's going to end up happening is that we're going to be picking up the going to be moving the body to the cemetery so what we want to do is we want the body to smell good out of respect for the dead and also make it a little more pleasant for those people that are going to be involved the tax and Rochelle the Bateson and he goes on to write and on top of that we also put egg on his head base true or false literally scrambled eggs Buckley by some visiting Mom cartoon old sign he writes the fish are you Melissa Sonic 4 because explains the bay so step in the name of the call Bo because what used to happen was is at the cemeteries were not in town the cemeteries used to be out of town and see what we going to end up doing this we're going to be picking up the body moving out of the great distance today she a key reprogram shoe who used to El now  how do you identify a Jewish party  so the basis of says this is a part of our secret part of our secret of identifying the Jewish party is by putting egg on the body smell of the egg the color of the egg we put an egg on the body now nowadays is probably explain to the yesterday we don't douse the body and I we just to the just the forehead right and on the two sides of the temple but in other words the basis of said this is an Antiquated this is an old then amine Antiquated but it's an old Jewish men and part of the reason why this was done was to identify the Jews body she needs to all us to Beau Simmons there that time to paint some should go who I was about hold on and why meaning if it's just a sign if it's just the wave indicated it's a Jewish body so why use an egg so he spells out that the reason why I'm sure you've heard this before is because surround it speaks to the cycle of life and how life is circular and how even though we're diver going to come back which is something were going to be talking about later this morning so he says that's why specific next so earliest Source I can find in terms of this mental of the application of Ed to the dead body nowadays by the way I'm sure we I'm sure you saw this yesterday give me a moment I'm sure you saw this yesterday nowadays that we make a mixture another words what we do is we take egg and we take vinegar we mix the two together and that's what we use now it happens to me from this particular source doesn't mention vinegar I have a suggestion comes in white why we added vinegar but let's first start with questions yes Maya are there any pressure that you can't be better than anything other than my attackers are so like goes to the dirt and the shards of the eyes like like you're putting something else on the body that wasn't part of it right so they are so again so without other words so now we have a reason we have an explanation meaning it's part of identification the body means that the regional reason why was done is to help us identify the body so once you doing something specifically for the mace for the body so then it goes to the idea that this is for the who makes another one generally speaking we will not going to put any for an item with the with the Mason the ground what we're doing it so that we can identify him as a or her as a joke and that's all that's automatic start vinegar I believe vinegar was added to the to the mixture of egg so that vinegar produces a very strong smell right there whenever whenever vinegars been using the kitchen you know what right away the whenever I come home from at the house so it's I have that very distinctive smell and that distinctive smell understand a lot of things contribute that does think the smell but really the most pronounced thing that comes just think the smell is really the I can vinegar mixture I put my hands in on Nixon and I put onto the forehead and really that's it to me at least just in from some smell pronouncement that really is what pronounces yes  how much are two just said that we there's a pleasant I mean you can you play clothes correct something a little better smelling again what I'm going to do is I'm going to give some explanation for these Traditions I don't have all the explanations I'm just you know like you know like my nightmare in the beginning of this year like do it right like I don't no right absolute right and wrong these are just you know and the source is I'm calling her the early sources I can find so okay sing about the eggs that I have at 2 from the research I've done  since it's very you know they take the the bodies to the end of time they need to be able to recognize who's a Jew and shines at night okay we going out to the next part of the Sahara and as am I hopefully going to present to you it is the strangest thing that we do and I'm going to my while I'm putting it in that kind of an in that kind of frame of the strangest thing that we do the next part of the of the of the process after we clean the body is that we're no here there really are two very legitimate and hugging their two costumes that are done either we take the body we put the money to make fun meeting you went to the funeral home yesterday you saw the actually have a Mikvah in the same room in the same prep room and others have a Min I have not a Mikvah but what we would call Tisha common 9 gallons of water which I part over kinda like a shower over the head of the mace either way they're both trying to do the same thing and that's purification estranged I don't know how else to present it it's just simply strange okay I know why I'm calling it strange and I'm going to play articulate but anyone can guess why that's so strange why is it the strangest thing the world  fat bodies are okay so just bear with me okay just give me a couple minutes I know this is going to be information that you may or may not be familiar with but we're going to just get a basic eye to the world of Tom at the Hara it's something that it's hard to relate to because it's not physical we don't see it but the idea of being impure what does it mean to be coming for the following meaning I came into contact with human body and I will be for the rest of my life meaning and what is that mean practically in my life and by the way am I ever going to get rid of my Tomo another words right you know there was one we find a red heifer power of them and we burn it and the ashes are then added to spring water and sprinkles on me for a 7-Day process Sunday Grande 7 so then I'm going to get rid of my Tumblr so unless the Michelle comes in the very near future which we're all hoping so I'm going to become Thomas will be timing I'm already intimated but I will continue be tell me for the rest of my life and how does that affect my life  now didn't start exactly meaning Factor this thing it doesn't affect my life the only thing I can do in my state of Tama is  Evan think it's very little practical ramification I mean turn the temple site other words on the temple I cannot walk on the Temple Mount now to be a little bit more specific in to be a little bit more accurate even the Temple Mount itself is divided into different sections the are I can walk on their sections that I cannot go the heart of bisection I'm allowed to walk on the actual area of the courtyard I'm not allowed to walk on but I hopefully the point is very simple there's very little practical application but I am tummy okay it's an admission which by the way not only my tummy just going one step further anyone I physically touch is going to be come to make that's awesome meaning I walk around and I just touched people and I'm and I make other people tummy so I master straight I'm a source of Toma and I just I share with everybody else now I'm Tommy because I came into contact with a dead body weight just give me one second printing but I came at the condo with the dead body was it say about the dead body the dead body is a source of Toma the reason why I'm tummy is because I what's the dead body which means that the dead body itself is the source of Toma and how long does the term used to describe the term of the dead bodies called of V hatoma doesn't translate well into English the grand right the father of All fathers of Toma meaning there is nothing more to me than a dead body  and this idea I know not a lot of tractor application but just the idea of timma what is the idea behind Toma meaning journalist make what is Thomas speak to  play Simple what's the quintessential Tomas I just got just got done saying that so what is Toma really meaning what is it in ideologically what is the represent Thomas lack of life  meaning if you think about it or not going to go to Every illustration every example what all sources of some of the Torah have something to do with a lack of Life simple example woman menstrating she's Timaya what happened to Pony menstruation there was a chance for life to occur but mensuration means that in this site didn't work out you can produce a child so she might biology understand but basically lets a lack of life and therefore, tell my generally speaking is a lack of life and the grandfather meaning the daddy of all Daddy's of Tomah is the actual dead body there's nothing there's no I guess or September than that and so allow me now to ask if a simple question what do you think we're doing no  there's no meaning from a holic standpoint no actual purification going on the body has not now been determined another word but you understand nothing otherwise nothing what's the body from huffing standpoint and meanwhile every Jewish tahara the centerpiece of every Jewish tahara is that we take a body and either we put them in for Wii have nine nine gallons of water shooting over the head for the purpose of purification but let's be honest with one another the body's not really being purified and so we're only left to wander and I'm going to provide an explanation one I've heard from that from any others but let's but let's wrap her head around the what's the purpose of purification if we're not really purifying and when understand  Play Questions okay what is somebody's doing like this cover can you guys just like a huge mess and I need to come into our from that friend like when other people were not doing this by the way sing bad about being pure at least I hope not because I'm going to be that way for the rest of my life nothing wrong with a woman menstrating at school biology that's called just life I think there's nothing bad inherently bad about being empir it's just a function of again the way I presented it being close to life of being close to death but just looking bad person add it so to that question now I mean your observations good you're right you're going to perform the bed the greatest crested ever you're going to be involved in varying somebody and then you walk on your tummy like all that what was that 4 but it's not it's nothing it's not inherently bad it's just simply part of the reality of the world there's some of those Tower fencing what time does the temple who are performers Ohio guitar and you mean right do you remember next time just you remember that the people came to Moshe for the first time pesach  NN what happened they said to Moshe weekend or for the comp why couldn't they have to come pay so yeah  well then we'll then right purses by most OP have a test so then across broccoli said okay I'm sorry most you said okay that's a great question let me go outside so Francine yes yes a great question traffic and some point you know what I'm going to do I'm going to give you a second chance maybe just got a second chance to bring a carb on if you're if you are on the Head Recreation you're always doing Sahara as you're always going to be Imperial you and one and you might be starting another you do I might help not answer a question but after you do one tomorrow you will be in fear for the rest of your life  nothing nothing another words I'll do another to Haro hopefully I do anymore nothing I'll do a change make it worse to make it better meaning I'm already in this in this state okay so let's okay good hopefully I presented the question well why do we doing at the centerpiece of every tahara where we take the body we put him to make fun and it doesn't do anything how logically so what are we doing okay so that's good let's give one Remind You by the way I'm providing one explanation I hope I hope I'm opening clear about this many what I'm saying over here are it's an approach it's a way it's a way to wrap our heads around it I'm not providing the end-all-be-all but it certainly way to think about it we have a tradition in our amongst sages and I'm sure you've heard of this before that we die and you know what's going to happen eventually  we're going to come back  drama filter I'm describing the 4th to get some Mason the round mom says that this is such an integral part of our Traditions around on the pool this is one of the 13 principles of our faith around my list and I'm sure you know certain principles that we as Jews have to believe in other words they believe in you what does he need to believe in simple question basic question so the ramen put together 13 different wholesome what we need to believe that number 13 XIII principle of the ramp is that we are going to not only be here once living this but after death we're going to come back again  what is that what is a tradition come from how do we know about such a tradition what's amazing mentioned in the Torah  I need any references Castle Mason the tower I'll be clear about the question explicit mention it's Kissimmee something to turn no explicit mention what's the weather in the tower about the Mason what about in the end of the game of the profits yeah give me give me a good example  okay good work I'm not going to go through it together but my time is running out but if you take a look at your fesco the 30th chapter houska Park LA me to pass in all this should have some familiar familiar already some we read it on the as a half tower on Pace km I want to know about the story of the dry bones okay and if you're not it's all there and take a look at the wrong turn to the last page where I Crow Adorama can guarantee us a Mason you know because he's such a rationalist so couple times in his life he was accused of not believing in and Resurrection today it is supposed to activation it's not true there's no there's no truth to it in fact he penned a letter speaking about how this is an absolute principle that we're going I'm back we're going to come back I just I'm just reading from the Rama the Amish is KSI Mason member for a seminar does bear Luna say no everyone knows about resurrection of the Dead set my alarm clock 8:30 know everyone for more classes we know about it I sure Rose there for a bit see if it's below to this forum of the top of no name meaning we mention it in diving right which Broncos do we mentioned together Mason yeah I know it was a question Christmas right we mentioned that close broke was going to resurrect the dead and in an in and then the VM he brought my Navy and then if he much never going to be resurrected with us haha am I lame amatom of I'm a dresser and you go through Tomlin and you're going to find source have to Source about the KSI Mason it's not it's not some sort of abstract the rambam rights it's real it's actual being a no-show those NFL go for a parade of the meaning what's going to happen is if there's a separate shut off body and soul and then at a later point in time historically they're going to get reunited now I know that that engenders a whole list of questions which I don't know the what age are as are so going to be reunited with our body is it going to be in it you know and rats in her 70s or back in the twenties I understand I'm not there's no way I could possibly answer that question for the ram I'm right this is not an abstract concept this is a real concept obviously forecast in the future so you know we don't know a lot about it but it's real the Robin says Marchelloni's my boom on my focus I love no one debates it the angle pairs Cloud the inn and motel when do each me out your mom and all of that and if somebody tells you otherwise around them says don't believe them then ERT lavella, okay and then it goes on CSI Mason is real and so as an approach as an answer to the question of why do we doing when we went when we're purifying the body we are probably demonstrating as Jewish people that we are believers in Fiesta Mason meaning the here-and-now the body is dead what is the source of Toma nothing is going to change that but what will happen the however in years to come is that this body is going to be play this song and the purification of the body is US demonstrating to the world and more importantly to us that PSI Mason is real now there's separation between body and soul and that's going to change and by putting the body in a Mikvah that is a sign for all of us that this is a real idea that the two are going to come back together again meeting right true right now doesn't change the reality the bodies dead that the song about you are separated but they're going to come back a possible approach to understand what the significance is of putting the body in the middle  okay finally I'm sorry two more points to go then and then I'm finished for today the body right yesterday right so perfect so we are the next episode 2 Bonnie was called operation turn the shots I didn't go through them are inside but you can take a look on the first page record the gemara inside that said that this is an old old men hog where we have special shrouds prepared for the body now you'll probably notice yesterday that there's a lot of men hugging there a lot of customs in terms of specifically how to dress a body what shroud should what route should be used the tying the knots there's a lot of old traditions now in terms of the specifics I don't have any any listen to talk about why the nurse should be tied why they both should be tied why should we reduce the shin meaning those Armand hug those are Customs that we have their old Customs are handed down generation to generation I've been doing it now for over a couple decades but before me it's been done for hundreds of years and years this way the one thing I could share with you as a when I saw this and it's beautiful the idea of dressing the body now this is true for both men and women is that we just a mint operation that are very similar to what kind of dress you're right you're right now that when I say you saw it meaning did you get that sense yesterday that when you dress the body sorry someone to the conga so now I know the phone goggles a man but in this regard the idea of extracting an idea and the idea isn't that when we dress the body what we're doing really is making the body in with the with treating it with the most respect and giving it mean the person that wants incompass that body top the highest level so just have respect and that is dressing him or her like to come and goggle  once again the that speaks to this idea you can see the magician side but the idea is is that now that with it with the looking of the Congo go how many how many garments did the coin Delaware too many what's an animal okay at 8 is the card number eight eight garments are worn by chrome goggle where do Acorn would wear for garments cohen-gadol would wear a garments what we do I'm not going to go through the specifics right now but if you count up the number of material the number of actual garments that are placed on the mace the numbers 8 and eight different garments are placed on the body eight tough Griffin a place on the body corresponding to the garments of the one by The Calling God all speak into this idea that to give the mates the most respect we're going to basically just dress them up Akon. Oh one more thing about this morning and with this were going to close  at the end of every to her I don't know if this was mentioned to you yesterday but the end of Arta hajra so we ask for forgiveness  to me the most powerful the most impactful aspect of the tahara and that is that we address the person obviously there was a separation meaning the gulf in the summer no longer together but never the last we ask for forgiveness and so it only beg the question where's the shop at that point in time meaning the body was one what was the item that encompassed the neshama posted the national so where's that shop at this point in time so here very traditional sources demaras that speak to the idea that between death and burial the deshauna is hovering the shamans hovering over the body and so even though they're separated but they're not far apart from each other and the cameras you said if I can shop at stuff go from the days I'm going to be about call show me with Nancy O'Dell anything that said in front of the Dead is known to the Dead painting the neshama still there within proximity actually stomach go low and that's going to be true says it tomorrow until the actual burial meaning when the body goes into the ground then then there's going to be a greater separation between Body and Soul so again for those of you who know me well not very mystical I'm not very  motivation old person but when they come up when the camera said that the two are still within proximity that's a very traditional sorts that speaks of this idea and so conclusion of every tahara so we look at the body returned to the body and we say if there's anything that we did which was disrespectful if if we mystery doing anyway we apologize and we ask for forgiveness and then the shop is right there in the Summers here and hearing the summer knows I don't know if this was conveyed to yesterday but what when we do I have to Hara and the bodies on the table we never pass anything directly over the body the assumption that we work with his up in the shamans right there having right over the body and so we always Circa meant we always go around now to reach over because we want to take care of the body that we do obviously but if we want to pass anything everything is always passed around the general assumption we what width is that the neshama is right there right on top of the body hovering right over so it's at that point where we ask from if he'll ask for forgiveness is that that point at least for me personally it's one of the most powerful moments of heavy Tower yes you connection tomorrow right what connection does it have I just put one more Source meaning it's fair to speculate that that sounds reasonable what you're saying does one of the one of the stores like wrote and you show me the tallest quotes that you show me says that that read insights the last door CH British Army on Mayfield Michelle Macaluso that the dead hears and recognizes that which is being said about him he looks so mean his Praises can we talk about how long you know what it's like are you shopping is a great analogy anyone have the Sensation that when you're sleeping and someone's around you and talking about you like like you know like it sometimes you wake up and like another words of going to deep sleep I understand it's not usually not going to happen but it's going to light sleeping so much talking about you like you hear it process it so the show me says very much like like a meet Lee post mortem meaning that within the shamans there within that proximity the shop enough in a in a similar the whole Salman to find out your dad she's time ago and you show me says that he knows what's going on up until the actual point of Ariel so this explains the men of us asking forgiveness because the general assumption is up until burial their there and they know what's going on okay so let's just quickly summarize let's wrap up the points that we made so far this morning I'm number one terms of the men of the Manahawkin the practices of the tahara so traces all the way back to the messiah's which is a document that's well over fifteen hundred years old  and goes back even early but in terms of actual text text resources we are play the stars and Shabbos discuss the the idea some ice some basic ideas of tahara three components every Tower washing the body purification of the body and I'm in the dressing of the body washing the body so I caught a bass Joseph that describes the idea washing the body a cleansing of the body removing the smell of the respect respect for the body respect for the people that any caring the body the egg in order to identify the the the body of the Jewish body because then transport it out to the out to the cemeteries purification the body the highlight of every towers of purification the body just to kind of wrap our head around idea of what we're trying to accomplish by purifying my suggestion this morning is at it reminds us of the Mason and and it strengthens our belief in the fact that the body and soul going to be reunited and that's what the tire was accomplishing and finally the dressing the body making the body look like the coin Ghazal eight garments of the condo Gallade garments worn by the are the Mason the top Griffin and finally the last thing that we do as we ask for forgiveness and the idea of the proximity of body and soul up into the point of burial

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