I have learned here that Jews bury their dead in shrouds, as do Muslims.  I have also heard that they traditionally do not use raised tombstones - is that true?  Muslims are not supposed to use them either.  Finally, Muslims do not use coffins, we dig down and then over to the side, creating a niche under solid ground in which to lay the person's body.  Do Jews bury people this way as well?  \n\nThanks.
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I can answer this question, I used to work in a memorial park.  In most states here in the US, you by law have to be buried in a cement vault in the ground.  The reason for this is not to contaminate any sources of ground water.  For in ground burial, a standard 6ft deep hole is dug, the hole is usually 6 1/2ft. in length, and 3 1/2, to 4ft. in width.  The cement vault is placed in the hole first, then the coffin containing the deceased is lowered into the vault, and sealed with a cement lid using a sealant to prevent leakage.  \n\nI'm sorry I really don't know the methods of Jewish burial.  The cemetery I worked for was used for people of the christian faith.  We do have a Jewish cemetery in our area, Driving past it, I have seen raised tombstones.  It appears that they use both raised, and flat tombstones
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Jewish people are buried in cemeteries often in a Jewish section of a non sectarian cemetery
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No. This is a lie. Many people from many nations died in 9-11, including Israelis. This lie is told by people who want to blame 9-11 on the jews. This is wrong. Muslim extremists flew planes into the WTC. Don't get swayed by idiots.
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First of all, Jesus wasn't buried in the ground.  Secondly, there were guards placed outside of the tomb for such an occasion as the apostles stealing the body.  Jesus still arose on the third day and appeared to more than 500 people before His ascension, despite their supposedly failsafe methods of protecting the "dead" body.\n\nMatthew 27:62-66\n 62The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63"Sir," they said, "we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.' 64So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first."\n\n 65"Take a guard," Pilate answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how." 66So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
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I do not know if Christianity does this differently, but, in Judaism, we bury objects with God's name on them.  If it's respectful enough for humans, it's probably good enough for Bibles.
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Jewish people pray.  They just don't pray to Jesus Christ because they don't believe he is the son of God.  They just pray to God directly.\n\nAs for being uncomfortable with mentioning Jesus, tolerant people aren't uncomfortable with anyone expressing their religious beliefs - it's being put in a position where you are either forced to say a prayer you don't believe in, or put in a position where you are made to stand out because you believe in something different.  Imagine going to a place where everyone, say, prayed to Satan - you wouldn't want to say the prayer, right?  And if everyday you were surrounded by people that wanted to pray to Satan several times a day, you might get a little uncomfortable, right?\n\nWhether you're the only woman in a group of men, or the only black person with all whites, or the only Jew with all Christians, constantly being reminded that you are the minority and different from the group, and having the group consistently engage in activities which exclude you, or seem inconsiderate of your difference, may test a person's patience and make them a little less tolerant than they should be.\n\nDoes that make sense? \n\nWhat was the movie?\n\nAnd see what FloridaGurl said above - that's the kind of intolerant holier than thou attitude that makes people of other faiths uncomfortable and agitated.
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I suggest you guys try and ignore this mouthbreather.  He asks the same questions on Judaism over and over again, with slightly different (though consistently biased and misleading) wording. If you don't believe me, all I can say is that you can verify this for yourselves.  I sincerely doubt that he is here to learn anything, at least in this area (though I feel obliged to at least commend him on his appropriate choice of screenname).\n\nThis guy's online hobby is something called Jew-baiting.  So don't take the bait, as it were, by responding on his terms and lending legitimacy to his line of questioning (which is shallow and insensitive at best, or, more likely from what I've seen, deliberate bigotry).  He has a real problem with Jews.  I don't know if it stems from a negative personal experience with Jews, or if he was raised by klansmen, or what.  But he keeps asking these same questions, and when confronted with information that contradicts his assumptions, he becomes belligerent and disregards the new information anyway.\n\nI once explained to him that he was mistaken in his assertion that a Jew had to have "Jewish blood" because conversion has a history going back through biblical history, all the way to the first Hebrew himself.  This did not sway him in his irrational belief.  And if someone here were to point out that calling Judaism a "cult of ancestor worship" is inaccurate because\n\na) it's not considered a cult\n\nand\n\nb) worshipping anything other than G-d, one's ancestors included, is the most severe form of blasphemy according to Judaism\n\nI highly doubt this gentleman would be swayed on either point.  My advice is not to waste your time.  There are plenty of people on here asking questions about Judaism because they actually want to learn.  If you are qualified to answer, answer those people.  They'll actually benefit from it.
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I thought we were only allowed a certain number of characters with which to spew our idiocy across the proverbial cosmos. Aparently that doesn't apply to those who worship those who steal other peoples "wastes." What was the juxtaposition of the question? Did your "profet" take a hit to the neck region? Or does hitting people in the neck region forcibly convert them from Judaism to Islam. An event similar to the medical event of "fast detoxification under anesthetics" only this ones for your soul. I gift myself two points.
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I would guess that they buried it or disposed of it someplace. I would like to know where in the Bible it talks of the Jewish law you are speaking of. If you could add the verse/s in the additional details area. I would like to learn more about that.
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Many Shi'a believe that Ali didn’t want his grave to be desecrated by his enemies and because of that he asked his friends and family members to bury him secretly.. This secret gravesite is supposed to have been revealed in later times. Most Shi'as accept that Ali was buried at what is now the city of Najaf, which grew around the mosque and shrine called Masjid Ali.\n\n    * One story recounts that the caliph Harun al-Rashid (ruled from 786 to 809) went hunting and came upon a bit of raised ground which his dogs refused to approach. Local inhabitants told him that this was the grave of Ali ibn Abi Talib. The caliph ordered the building of a mausoleum, which was the nucleus of the city and the shrine.\n\n    * Another story claims that the location of the gravesite was passed from father to son along the line of Shi'a Imams, and that Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Shi'a Imam, told the caliph where to find the grave.\n\n    * While an additional story, usually maintained by Afghans, notes that his body was taken and buried in the Afghan city of Mazari Sharif at the famous Blue Mosque or Rawze-e-Sharif.
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Islam  has not only answered your question but t also has shown means of prevention which were conducted by you prophet himself ( I think you are Muslim ) and the caliphates do not kill an elderly , woman not even a tree . Ahmed Didat gives good explanations t that issue.\nAnd I lie to answer what (old school above said ) are Jews considered terrorist they after all crucified Jesus
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you are quite correct, in fact Jews used terrorism in the same way that the palestinians do today long before anyone else. They were the origional terrorists
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It's not just you.  I have also witnessed this and it greatly disturbs me.  You can go to a Muslim chatroom almost any time of day and find people insulting Jews.  If one wants to really insult someone in those rooms, they'll call them a "Jew" or "Jew-lover."  I get so mad.  They habitually deny the holocaust, and yet believe in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which has been proven to be a fabrication.  \n\nEarly in the Prophet Muhammad's career, there was a Jewish tribe that made a treaty with him.  But they broke the treaty.  Of course, they were probably not being treated as equals since they never converted to Muhammad's new religion.  But this set a very bad precedent, unfortunately for the Jews.  Because the Muhammad then recited verses of the Qur'an which were directed against "the Jews."  Of course, this more than likely meant THOSE Jews from that one tribe who had broken the treaty, and not Jews in general.  However, there are various verses in the Qur'an that seem like they are applying more generally to all Jews.  And there are some very very negative statements in there against Jews.\n\nFor example, the Qur'an says that the Jews had received a revelation from God, but that they twisted it and changed it, and to punish them, God turned them into detestable apes!  There is a statement in the Qur'an about the Jewish nose, implying it is crooked on account of sin.  There are whole suras (chapters) in there just going on and on about Jews and it is really NOT positive.\n\nThere ARE positive statements in the Qur'an about Jews.  But I do not think it outweighs the negative ones therein at all.\nThere was a time when Muslims and Jews got along better - when the Jews were subordinate to the Muslims.  As long as the Muslims were over the Jews, the Muslims were ok with Jews.  But when the Jewish state of Israel was created, everything went way downhill.  The Palestinians saw it as a takeover and an infiltration.  (even though it was Britain that had owned the land before).\n\nThere is a deep rift and it will take a lot to heal it, I'm afraid.
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Some of these questions would take a while to answer but I will try to keep this as simple and short as I can,\n\nWho are Judaism's religious leaders?  Most religious Jews study the writtings of their Sages and Rabbis that have lived throughout the ages.  A Rabbi is basically someone who  teaches Jews about Judaism.  Anciently, there was a court called the Sanhedrin that interpreted the laws and how to live by them.\n\nWhat does Judaism think about the worship or use of idols and images?  Strictly forbidden to worship or have images of God.\n\nWhat would their house of worship be?  Anciently it was the Beit Hamikdash (Temple) in Jerusalem.  Today its mostly done in a Synagogue.\n\nWhat are their beliefs about the "Good Life" and life after death.  \nThis one would take a lifetime to answer and there really are no clear answers.  I believe that the majority opinion is that you are simply dead and know nothing until the resurrection.
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nah.\n\ni have seen some of these people. in front of the house i lived as kid was a grave. some muslims started throwing coins when passing by. then some one started sitting there with a (mujabir? i think that's what they are called .not sure though) loban or something. then they started singing kawwalees at that grave on thursdays. \n\nthen we noticed on thursdays a woman had started to come and they had a full show going on. mujabir(?) told everybody that djinn possesses her that time and all that. \n\none day after all devotees went away that woman and mujabir had a quarrel about money they had earned. they could not selttle the issue . then she stopped coming. \n\nbut really i had seen too much drama already. how the tales were being created and what not. many old people used to say that the grave was of a pet of original owners of that land. but everyone avoided telling it to devotees as it would have been risking a riot.\n\ni have always been curious about ghosts and as a kid sometimes volunteered to go with ghost search parties. no luck.\n\n  sometimes my companions claimed to see or hear the ghosts. somehow i never see them. seems like ghosts and djinns avoid me altogether.\n\nit is not only muslim djinns either. that Pepal tree ghost often refered among hindus too do not come near me.\n\nthough i believe in existance of soul I believe such claims as frauds.
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A funeral home is enough.  I suppose it's mostly up to the surviving members of the family though.  If someone wanted a prayer, it would also be more for the mourners.  The atheist would most likely need to leave specific instructions if they didn't want anything religious involved.  If the atheist was baptized early in life the family might drag a church into it if they really wanted.  I've had non-religious friends who have died but their family had Mass of Christian Burial for them since they were originally Catholic.  I know a lot of people who have it at a funeral home anyway even if they are religious.  My grandfather was Catholic so we had a priest come to the funeral home.  An atheist could just have family members or friends speak instead.
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As most have taken note, Leviticus 19:27 specifically prohibits tattoos. So, dont get one!\n\nHowever, no where, and i mean NOWHERE, does it say that one with a tattoo cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetary. To say that if one violates THIS law they cant be buried there, would mean that if one violated other laws, one could not be buried there either, and that is nonsense! Would a jewish funeral parlor/cemetary refuse a Jew because he did not keep kosher? Obviously not. \n\nSo, the idea that one with a tattoo cant be buried in a jewish graveyard is nonsense, and there is no place that i have seen anywhere in Jewish rabbinic sources that says this.