Pravda Ne'eman
if i recall correctly, the gemara in nazir (don't have it in front of me to look up right now) seems to say that dead bodies from before matan torah are not me'tamei b'ohel
If you believe the literal interpretation then the world is no older than 5700 some odd years old. The scientists must have made some sort of mistake in their dating and of course a kohen cant touch the bones. They are bones after all.
No, they're not bones. They are reasonable facsimiles placed there by a mischievious God who apparently has nothing better to do with His time than to mislead and dupe us.
Here's my question: Was Elvis the Moshiach? After all, he did unite his fans in peace, he radically changed the world and he was called "the king".
Personally I think Elvis, the Rebbi, Rabbi Nachman, and Charbach are all hiding out somewhere and having a Kum Zitz. They only take a break when one of them gets an aliya from their various followers.
Midioraisa it's Muttar. But not M'dirabonon. BHB
Garnel and Child: your comments about Elvis Presley are both gratuitous and offensive.
Ash-hadu anna laa ilaaha illa Allah, wa ash-hadu anna menachem mendel schneerson rasool Allah!!
R2S2, you'r right. I forget to mention Jim Morrison.
mea culpa
Where there's a will, there's a halakhic loophole.
And where there is corrugated cardboard, the air is free of tuma'as meis.
From a recent news item:
"El Al Airlines tackle the issue of transporting corpses -- a problem for members of Judaism's priestly caste, called Kohanim, who are banned by ritual law from coming in close proximity to the dead..........The institute found a solution by wrapping thick corrugated cardboard around the coffin in the shape of a house. That way, the body is considered enclosed and unable to "spread impurity," making it acceptable for Kohanim to travel on the same plane."
JD - Terrific question!
I thought that the only halachic issue that cohanim would have is over Jewish bones? Unless there is some sort of rabbinical legislation that I am not aware of.
"They are reasonable facsimiles placed there by a mischievious God who apparently has nothing better to do with His time than to mislead and dupe us."
"Isn't that deceptive?
It is no more deceptive than creating a world which looks like it happened through blind chance over millions of years and then telling mankind it was created in six days a couple centuries previously and giving no indication that the story was simply an allegory. In fact, insofar as such "pre-history" is a logical necessity in the narrative I would argue it is a lot less deceptive.
Such an objection may have some strength from a materialistic perspective but it has almost no weight theologically once we have accepted that there is a Creator. The fact is that God has, clearly concealed Himself......"
What happened to you guys?
Pardon me, but why would G-d dupe us?
And how do you know that the world wasn't created more than 6,000 years ago? We count from Adam Harishon. But the rest of the world was created before him, and elef shanim b'einecha k'yom etmol. Nu?
The am ha'aratzus here is apalling, but in the hope someone might actually learn something, I will attempt to educate. Only the body of a Jew is mitamain in an ohel. and that would only be if there was "rove minyan or rove binyan" of a skeleton. THATS A MISHNAH, not a zohar, not a reb "Kveiger", not a medresh hanelam. a mishnah. As long as a kohein does not touch or carry these bones there is no problem going into a museum that displays these bones except for ta'aroovos and apikorsis on the the signs that accompany such displays.
I do not even know what to say. I am not very strong in this, so I really enjoyed this article and comments.
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