Tag: Death
-
Eternal Life For Sale On eBay?
Those who read Milton Steinberg’s novel “As a Driven Leaf” will remember that eternal life is a reward given for the fulfillment of two mitzvot (commandments), namely the honoring of one’s parents and the mitzvah to shoo away the mother bird from the nest before taking her eggs. However, yesterday those who wanted to taste…
-
Internet Scammers Add to Tragedy of Noah Pozner
When the names of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut were announced, Jewish media outlets immediately published articles about the youngest victim Noah Pozner, the Jewish 6-year-old who was laid to rest earlier this week in a traditional Jewish funeral officiated by the family’s rabbi, Shaul Praver of Congregation…
-
How Sitting Shiva Has Changed
I’ve been thinking about death and mourning quite a bit lately. To begin with, the first week of the new year brought with it a rash of deaths here in the Detroit Jewish community. There were a fair share of elderly grandparents who died in their 80s and 90s during the first week of 2012,…