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We've Been Challenged! VOLUME 27, NUMBER 3 • SUMMER 2021 • TAMMUZ 5781 We’ve Been Challenged! HFBA must raise $100,000 to meet a $50,000 match a $50,000 matching gift challenge. We have to raise an additional $100,000 in response. To meet the continuing urgent need for indigent burials, an anonymous foundation has steppedchesed we up canwith provide to the poorest and most vulnerable among us. The funds will cover the tahara Our goal of $150,000 will enable us to underwrite the cost of some 30 burials – the final (ritual cleansing), diminished,the shrouds deservesand coffin, a theproper funeral burial. service and burial. RightPlease now, match every this magnanimoustwo dollars you gesture contribute with one will of release your own. another Every Jew,dollar no ofmatter funding. how poor or To donate, go to www.hebrewfreeburial.org/donate or send in your gift in the enclosed envelope. The Dishes We Serve Mourners: Our Foods Express Both Love and Wisdom ven the foods we serve to mourners, brought with comfort and love, teaches us Jewish approaches served with ashes. For Sephardi Jews, the eggs will Eto loss and mourning. The prescribed meals are behomes, prepared the eggs as huevos may be haminados, simply hard hard-boiled boiled or even eggs cooked overnight. filled with symbolic meaning and while different Jewish an even more austere custom. Describing the pious culturesThe nexus have of distinctive our customs ingredients comes from and the cooking Talmud, styles, ofMaimonides, earlier generations, writing he a century writes: after Rashi, describes whichthe symbolic tells us meanings that “A mourner are always is forbidden similar. to eat of his “A person would sit alone between the oven Moed Katan and the cooking range. Others would bring own bread on the first day [of mourning]” ( him dried bread and salt. He would dip it in water and drink a pitcher of water while of27b). shiva. Over the years, this dictum – for others to prepare worried, forlorn and in tears, as one whose theRashi, mourners’ the renowned meals – has11th extended to the entire week dead was lying before him.” explains that mourners are offered lentil soup because lentils century “are commentator, as round as a - wheel, for mourning is like a - In our own time, the concept of round foods – sym - canbolizing mourner’s the circle home. of life – continues to resonate. In ad givewheel mourners revolving eggs the becauseworld.” dition to eggs, bagels are now a mainstay of the Ameri It is the custom, he says, to East,In Israel, there theis pita first bread foods or served ka’ak, area round bourekas bread or that mourners“they are round to speak. and have no rugelach. For Mizrachi Jews, those from the Middle mouth.” It is often difficult for continued on page 6 may be sprinkled with sesame seeds and topped with In European (Ashkenazi) HFBA Receives the Highest Rating from Charity Navigator, America’s Largest and Most- Utilized Independent Evaluator of Charities! 2 | The Hebrew Free Burial Association | Chesed It is heartbreaking reading the stories of all those In the Mail poor unfortunate souls who had to die all alone. It is so Letters below have been edited for clarity sad. There are people out there who have had so much and to protect confidentiality. tragedy in their lives. Anyway, we can’t afford much but we want to help. A donation is enclosed. I want to thank you for your support and coordination V.N. to ensure that J. had a proper send-off. The funeral went forward on Monday as planned. As I told you, I had made Thank you so much for calling me about Joan. Even that commitment to him. The officiating rabbi was very though I never met her, she was related to me- she was kind and respectful. Another friend came down from my father’s sister’s daughter. We had spoken a few times Danbury to attend. each year and the last time, months ago, she had wanted We have high praise for the work you do on behalf of to meet me and then Covid-19 arrived. I am glad she is the Jewish community. resting in peace. She had a hard life. Please accept this Be well, stay safe and know you are appreciated. donation in her memory. Continue your kind deeds. L.B. E.O. DID Canada and other countries. Between 1951 and YOU KNOW Jewish Life in Harbin, China 1953, about 3500 “Chinese Jews” settled in Israel and ? Jewestablished left in 1985. their own community. The Harbin Jewish During the late 19th communityIn 1958, the stopped Chinese functioning authorities in selected 1963 and 853 the of last the more than 3000 Jewish graves to move Harbin, in northeast centuryChina, to through escape the mid-20th pogroms,century, Russian persecution Jews immigratedand unfair economic to to the Public Cemetery, effectively closing mostand abandoning of the gravestones the Jewish are cemetery.illegible. workingrestrictions. as businessmen, There they lived professionals, with full InThese 2004, graves the Harbin may still Museum be found of Jewishalthough civil rights and built a thriving community merchants and railway workers on After the Japanese History and Culture located at the site of the Trans-Siberian Railway connecting personal itemsthe documentingNew Synagogue, the waslives established. of some of the The disband.Moscow andPeople Peking left for(now Shanghai, Beijing.) the United States, moremuseum than features 20,000 documents, Jewish residents photographs, of Harbin. films, and occupation in World War II, the community began to included an article in which HFBA featured The November 18, 2020 edition of Time Magazine prominently. The article, “Lost in the Pandemic: Inside New York City’s Mass Graveyard on Hart Island,” described how this “potter’s field,” in existence for over bodies.150 years and containing over a million bodies, still HFBA becomes the final resting place for so many unclaimed resulted in the subsequent need for some bodies to be During the current pandemic, the frantic rush to bury NEWS disinterred and re-interred. The Time article movingly describes the journey of one Jewish woman’s body from —IN THE— ritesan unmarked of her Jewish mass faith. grave to HFBA’s cemetery. There she was buried with dignity according tohttps://time. the tradition and com/5913151/hart-island-covid/ The full article may be read here: 3 BELOW ARE TRANSLATED SUMMARIES OF THE ARTICLES APPEARING IN THIS ISSUE OF CHESED. Русский Дайджест Еда, подаваемая скорбящим, выражает любовь и мудрость с городскими властями и подтвердила, что Сара была еврейкой, вышла замуж за нееврея и затем развелась. Детей у пары не было. Линда смогла предоставить еврейское имя Сары, а также имена её родителей, Даже блюда, подаваемые скорбящим по усопшим, бабушек и дедушек. Когда всё это выяснилось, тело выражают традиционный подход иудаизма к потере Сары было эксгумированоHFBA) и перезахоронено на . близких и к ритуалу скорби. Помимо успокающего еврейском кладбище. Еврейское Благотворительное действия, предписанная в этих случаях еда имеет и Похоронное Бюро ( провело обряд погребения символическое значение. И хотя еврейские традиции Вскоре Линда прислала благодарственное письмо с в разных уголках света обращают больше внимания вложеннымНам в бросилинего пожертвованием. приятный вызов ! на те или иные. ингредиенты и стили приготовления HFBA должно собрать $100 тыс. пожертвова- пищи, этот символизм, в еврейской культуре ний чтобы получить ещё $50 тыс. неизменен Как объясняет Раши живший в 11-м веке знаменитый толкователь Торы, скорбящим предлагают суп из чечевицы, потому что зёрнышки Чтобы HFBA имело возможность и дальше хоронить, её «круглы как колесо, а ритуал оплакивания подобен малоимущих, нуждающихся в еврейском погребении, колесу, вращающему весь мир». Он добавляет, что некий анонимный фонд пообещал перевести $50 тыс. принято давать скорбящим яйцо, поскольку «круглое Прямо сейчас на каждые два доллара, если нам удастся собрать $100 тыс. пожертвований. оно и не имеет зева». Это напоминает о том, что которые вы дадите, HFBA получит один доллар скорбящие не должны разговаривать. дополнительно. В домах европейской (ашкеназской) традиции Чтобы перевести деньги, зайдите на сайт www. hebrewfreeburial.org/donate или вышлите Ваше подаютhuevos сваренное haminados вкрутую яйцо или даже яйцо смешанное с золой. Для сефардов яйца готовят в пожертвование в приложенном конверте. стиле (дословно «побитые яйца»), яйца вкрутую, которые варятся всю ночь. Вопросы и ответы В наше время эта традиция «круглой» еды тоже жива и актуальна.). Помимо яиц основным блюдом : скорбящих в еврейских домах Америки стали бейгели. (бублики В Израиле в первую очередь подают - Вопрос Татуировки запрещены согласно буреки (слоёные несладкие пирожки) или ругелах еврейскому закону. Может ли человек с татуировками Для евреев из стран Ближнего Востока (мизрахи) та быть похоронен на еврейском кладбище? кой «круглой» едой служит пита или ка-ак – круглая лепёшка, обычно посыпанная кунжутным семенем и Ответ: Татуировки действительно запрещены, HFBAспециями. помогает основываясь на стихе из Второзакония (19:28) «не должен ты делать на себе порезы из-за умерших или , наносить иные знаки на тело, Я – Вс-вышний». Этот - запрет – часть всеохватывающего еврейского запрета Сара скончалась в возрасте 74-х лет от коронавируса изменять или увечить своё тело. Однако наличие та и общественный администратор Нью-Йорка начал туировок не препятствует погребению на еврейском поиски её родственников. Несмотря на начатую кладбище, и все еврейские источники сходятся в том, процедуру поиска, Сара была в ускоренном порядке что такого человека должны и обязаны похоронить погребена на городском кладбище на Заячьем среди евреев, на освящённой земле. острове. Однако сестра её бывшего, мужа заявила городскому судмедэксперту, что хоть у Сары была - итальянская фамилия по мужу по рождению она была еврейкой. К тому же проживающая в Калифор нии дальняя родственница Сары, Линда Ф*, связалась The Hebrew Free Burial Association | Chesed | 4 HFBA’s Covid Update Even though the Covid pandemic in our area is waning, our caseload remains greater than prior to the pandemic.
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