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ny21
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 Thu, Nov 16 2006, 2:28 pm
I never heard of people actually doing this.
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Last edited by ny21 on Thu, May 17 2012, 5:49 am; edited 2 times in total
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Crayon210
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Thu, Nov 16 2006, 2:36 pm
I haven't heard of it recently.
Also, it's called sitting shiva, not saying shiva.
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ny21
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Thu, Nov 16 2006, 2:39 pm
yes - it is called sitting shiva
I made a mistake.
just recently my friend sat shiva for her husband .
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chocolate moose
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Thu, Nov 16 2006, 6:20 pm
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chavamom
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Thu, Nov 16 2006, 6:54 pm
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I was told that if you ask a rav, most will say that we do not do this in this day and age for a number of reasons. One, you should 'leave a door open' with lines of communication open so that they have a door back into the community. The other is that it was done in the past not to prevent the individual from doing something, but to make a statement to the rest of the community "see, this is what happens if you intermarry!' It doesn't have the same effect in an open society such as we live in. Also, when someone intermarried in the past, they generally had to convert and it was a much bigger statement.
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Marion
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Fri, Nov 17 2006, 12:24 am
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Besides, then what do you do if you get word, ch"v, that they really were niftar? Sit shiva again? Ignore it?
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Ruchel
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Sun, Nov 19 2006, 5:29 am
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I have definitely heard of it, but not in our times. Last time, maybe in the 1960’s?
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