Comments on: Have any Orthodox Jewish families buried an empty coffin because their child converted?

By: purplegirl88

purplegirl88 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:52:59 +0000

I’ve heard that some will say Kaddish (the prayer of mourning) if a child leaves the orthodox community (not necessarily converting to a different religion. As someone mentioned before, you cannot convert out of Judaism). I do know what you are talking about, I have heard it too, but I haven’t heard about the burial thing. I think that it is only in some very religious communities, not the ones that you see every day on the street, although I have never asked any of the orthodox people that I know.
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By: Yah man

Yah man — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:27:59 +0000

That is what they did with Jesus, but he came back after the Sabbath for a couple of days because he always wanted to be like the prodigal son in his story. But they still treated him like he was crazy, so then he went to the "nations", probably India and called himself Thomas like his twin brother Didymius Thomas? Or, else he went to Rome to look for his real father? Maybe to Spain, like Paul(?), where he joined up in his old age with General Vespasian or Titus? Maybe that is where the runaway slave story came from in the NT story honoring the Emperor?
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By: Your Friendly Jewish Accountant

Your Friendly Jewish Accountant — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:45:59 +0000

You’re wrong on a number of accounts, and I’m sure your Christian friends have pushed these ideas on you.

You cannot convert OUT of Judaism. It’s called being an apostate Jew. They’re never not considered Jewish or not alive, though they may be cast out of the family for instances of say, intermarried w/ a non-Jew.

If you thought for a second about the cost of a burial, let alone one of an empty coffin when the rest of us are on a waiting list for a plot, you’d delete this question.
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By: Ruth Asher

Ruth Asher — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:12:59 +0000

answer: very few but it is understandable. The child is rejecting their parent’s religion and is now considered an apostate, outside of Judaism. Many parents in other religions have done things almost as drastic.

Some even worse – killing their children for "dishonoring" their "religion" or culture. 3 teenage girls and a guardian were killed in Montreal, Canada recently because the girls wanted to be teenagers, not treated like slaves at home.

Other parents reject their children, declaring them dead or throwing teenage children out into the streets if the child comes out of the closet – the majority of those parents are Christians.
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By: claptic

claptic — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:05:59 +0000

do you have a shovel?
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