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  2. Tachrichim - Wikipedia

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    Tachrichim. Tachrichim (Hebrew: תכריכים) are traditional simple white burial furnishings, usually made from 100% pure linen, in which the bodies of deceased Jews are dressed by the Chevra Kadisha, or other burial group, for interment after undergoing a taharah (ritual purification).

  3. Jean Baptiste (grave robber) - Wikipedia

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    Heath and cemetery sexton J.C. Little began investigating and eventually searched Baptiste’s home. There, they found boxes containing stolen burial clothing and other items, including approximately 60 pairs of children’s shoes, a dozen pairs of men’s shoes, funeral shrouds, and infant clothing.

  4. Shroud - Wikipedia

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    Shroud usually refers to an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object. The term is most often used in reference to burial sheets, mound shroud, grave clothes, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the Jewish tachrichim or Muslim kaffan, that the body is wrapped in for burial. A famous example of this is the Shroud of ...

  5. Kittel - Wikipedia

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    As a tachrichim or burial shroud, the kittel signifies simple attire that assures equality for all in death. Because Jewish law dictates that the dead are buried without anything else in the coffin other than simple linen clothes, a kittel has no pockets.

  6. Burial - Wikipedia

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    Burial can be seen as an attempt to bring closure to the deceased's family and friends. Psychologists in some Western Judeo-Christian quarters, as well as the US funeral industry, claim that by interring a body away from plain view the pain of losing a loved one can be lessened. Many cultures believe in an afterlife. Burial is sometimes ...

  7. In Gaza, rows of white shrouds symbolise mounting civilian deaths

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    Shrouds from Arab donors come packed with a bar of soap, perfume, cotton, and eucalyptus, for the preparation of bodies for burial, a doctor at a hospital in the southern town of Rafah told Reuters.

  8. Funeral - Wikipedia

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    Burial rites should normally take place as soon as possible and include: Bathing the dead body. Enshrouding the dead body. Men are shrouded with a kittel and then (outside the Land of Israel) with a tallit (shawl), while women are shrouded in a plain white cloth. Keeping watch over the dead body. Funeral service, including eulogies and brief ...

  9. Chevra kadisha - Wikipedia

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    The term chevra kadisha (Hebrew: חֶבְרָה קַדִּישָׁא) [1] gained its modern sense of "burial society" in the nineteenth century. It is an organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of deceased Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition and are protected from desecration , willful or not ...

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