B"H
The other day I received the following e - mail question:
How do you call the custom of collecting Jewish body parts after, for instance, a terror attack ?
I asked a chassidic Rabbi for the answer yesterday and he told me what I had expected: "There is no particular name for collecting all the body parts after a terror attack. According to Halacha, all body parts should undergo a DNA test in order to be buried with the person himself. However, there are cases in Jerusalem where not all body parts undergo such a test and, instead, are being buried together in one grave. This grave is called "Kever Achim" and in Jerusalem you can find such a grave on Har Hazeitim (Mount of Olives).
We should never know about such things. I wondered when at mass graves in Poland how Tchias Hameisim would occur for people who rachmana litzlan were not buried anywhere near the rest of their bodies...
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDeleteI can just let you know what the Talmud says in Masechet Sanhedrin:
If a dead body is missing a body part, the sun in messianic times will be either healing or destructive. The righteous will be healed (including their missing body parts) and the wicked will burn.
May I am sounding too naive but I am sure that G - d will let happen a Techiah in Poland as well.