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Wisdom & Reflections: “Never Yield Up — Never Explore In”
Sam Cooper
27 August 2020
By Rabbi Gerald Serotta
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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat tells a story about Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal Movement:[i] when he realised he was nearing death, he made an unusual request. He knew that once he died, the chevra kadisha would perform the rituals of taharah: they would wash his body, and bless his body, and dress his body in white linen shrouds in preparation for burial. He wanted to experience that while he was alive, so that his neshamah, his soul, would be prepared for what was coming. So, he asked them to perform the rituals as though he were dead, and he closed his eyes and let himself be tended-to and prayed-over and cared-for in that unique way.
Can you imagine what that would be like? To lie still, as though your soul had already departed your body, and submit without flinching and without fear to your community’s tender care? Can you imagine wanting that kind of “dress rehearsal” for your own death?
Well, as Rabbi Rachel Barenblat highlights – today is that dress rehearsal.
It may sound strange, but this is one of the traditional ways of thinking about Yom Kippur. There are several practices that we take on, to varying degrees and in different ways, to make today a rehearsal for death.
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