https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/chief-rabbi-exhume-christian-missionary-from-jewish-plot-671767
Chief Rabbi David Lau has said that “every effort” should be made to exhume and rebury a Christian woman and covert missionary who was recently buried in a Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem.
The
woman in question was buried in a multistory burial chamber above a
Jewish woman, since she was believed to be Jewish at the time.
Jewish
law prohibits Jews to be buried alongside non-Jews, and since the
woman’s husband refuses to allow her to be exhumed and reburied,
questions have arisen as to how to handle the situation. Amanda Elk
was the wife of covert missionary and Messianic Christian Michael Elk
who together posed as ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood
of French Hill for at least five years.
There's really no discussion of such a case in the halakha?
ReplyDeleteThis business of burying atop another is rarely done for past 1,500+ or so years.
ReplyDeleteChevra Kadisha in Yerushalayim is different.
The Multi-Layered Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague
ReplyDeletehttps://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/11/the-multi-layered-old-jewish-cemetery.html
In the past when a cemetery ran out of space and there were no more land to expand, a new cemetery was created by layering more soil over the old graves. This was what happened in the Old Jewish Cemetery, in the Jewish Quarter of Prague. Not once, or twice, but twelve times...
Maybe he should be invited to write a guest post , on why he opposes.. ;)
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