Jewish Life Cycle Quiz

A dying person should not be left alone. It is not a sign of respect to leave that person alone for the sake of privacy. Follow common sense. Just be there. It is a mitzvah to be present for her at the very end.

Yizhor. Said in synagogue as a communal prayer.

Seven days. Say mourner's kaddish the entire entire. You sit shiva a parent, sibling, spouse, or child died

- The mourner shouldn't worry about making enough food for the guests.- The mourner shouldn't worry about being a good host.- The mourner shouldn't should be taken care of.- Close family and friends carry the burden of taking cake of the mourner.

Yizhor

Not to leave them alone. It is a mitzvah to be present for her at  the very end.

The friends of the mourner should feed the bereaved, wait for the mourner to initiate talk, and talk about the deceased. - Honor deceased, comfort mourners-community comes together to care for mourner- bringing food

Yahrzeit

Observance begins at night. A 24-hour candle is lit. Mourners attend the synagogue for the evening, morning, and afternoon service. Mourners do not go to a celebration or a party on this day.

An ancient prayer praising God or the world he has given us. This prayer is the traditional Jewish way of responding religiously to death.

Represents the sundering that the death has caused in a mourner's life. It is a tear that is made in the mourner's garment opposite the heart. Also wear a black torn ribbon. To be worn throughout the seven-day mourning period known as shiva.

The week of mourning following the internment of the deceased. It is interrupted only by the Sabbath. The family puts aside worldly concerns and stays at home to concentrate on their loss and begin to heal. 

- Burial must take place within 24 hours of the person's death (except in certain cases)- Choosing a casket made of simple wood without nails- Bury the deceased in a mausoleum where the deceased is buried in the earth - Casket is lowered into the earth and everyone present places earth upon the grave (dirt hitting the wooden box signifies finality). - the corpse is not to be left alone until the burial.- burial may not take place on Shabbat or on the the festivals.- Each person present at the graveside, beginning with the immediate family, take a shovel and place three shovelsful of dirt in the grave. This ritual can be seen as one more aspect of Jewish acceptance of death as an inevitable and necessary event, an act of resignation that makes it impossible for the family and friends to deny the reality of a loved one's final departure. It also honors the dead; one has actively taken part in their burial, rather than leaving it to others.- Customary to wash hands after leaving a cemetery (everyone at the cemetery, from the people touching the body to those who simply walk onto a cemetery, are ritually impure.)

- Embalming- Open casket - CremationALL AGAINST JEWISH LAW

A Jewish divorce contract. When one has a civil divorce, he/she is required by Jewish law to obtain a Jewish divorce. Without this document, there can be legal problems later concerning the status of the children.