A country haunted by demons XNUMX - burning the club

The burning of the deli in Netanya a few weeks ago and the burning of the Ali Shalekht company facility today must be outside the consensus

Clarification This article is a personal blog on a current topic, and is not news on any scientific topic. I didn't intend to turn the Haunted Country blog, which has been running for about three years without rest within the site, into a daily blog. Just yesterday I was discussing the 12th episode of Mysticism on TV, and here are more burning matters.

People who call themselves ultra-Orthodox are unable to tolerate the very existence of secular "shrines" - places where secular people can enter to observe their mitzvot - or more precisely, to ventilate from the suffocation imposed on them by those who consider themselves representatives of a higher being - for example, delicatessens that sell products that are not necessarily kosher - What prevented them from having the residents of Netanya or Beit Shemesh have a choice in purchasing the food basket? Do not want ? Don't come in and don't buy but burn? It shows fear - that you might be wrong.

The peak came after at this hour, close to midnight, you can read on all the news sites the first news about the burned structure of the cremation facility established by the Ali Shlekht company for those who are not interested in a religious ceremony and want to contribute with their death to reducing the crowding in the cemeteries that will soon together occupy the area of ​​a large city. The facility in Moshav Hivat Zion in Sharon was completely burned down. Benene states that the police are investigating a suspicion that ultra-Orthodox members set fire to the place. The fire brigade was called to the scene by residents who noticed a fire at the edge of the settlement. When the firefighters arrived at the scene, they discovered that it was a building used for cremation. The building was severely damaged and so was a large generator that was near it. According to the reports on the "Haaretz" website, signs of a break-in were discovered there, raising the suspicion that it was a deliberate arson. The police opened an investigation and the police officers began conducting searches in the area.

From the quotes in YNET and from the mouth of the CEO of Zaka (the Kambatz of the ultra-Orthodox community) Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, it appears that he supports the operations. Apparently he was the one who revealed the location of the facility, which was kept secret precisely for fear of such harassment, in a local ultra-orthodox newspaper in Bnei Brak.
An absurd situation has arisen, where on the one hand the ultra-Orthodox seek to distinguish themselves from the secular and demand that the state exempt them from all kinds of laws - from serving in the IDF, from the need to educate their sons in professions that will support them with dignity, even from paying a deposit on bottles (haven't you wondered why there is no deposit on bottles of one and a half liters or more? ) - three exemptions that even if they did not exist would not be against their faith, since it is possible to believe in the existence of a higher power and write software for computers, but the desire is to control their people. From the recent fires, the impression emerges that what they fail to take with their political power, they take with the power of the match.
They know that no one will do anything to the burners and certainly to their senders. They see what is happening around them and know that the police are lax, and are unable to protect apartment buyers from their stings fleeing abroad and elderly women who live in a vineyard and are attacked by robbers, so it is clear to them that in the case of people with Pavlovian protection from corrupt politicians who think they are buying the The votes for the next elections, no one will do anything for them, and only the insurance company of Ali Shalekht, if at all they found such a company that would be willing to insure such a facility, will bear the damage. And who is next in line to burn?

And if you thought there would be some kind of consensus against this barbaric action, you were wrong, a quick look at the YNET talkbacks reveals that there are many who support the move, even if they themselves were unable to carry it out. This should turn on a red light. We all know how regimes arose that responded to the will of the people in similar cases throughout history. The worst is that they compared the operation of the incinerator to the Nazi incinerators in the extermination camps. The comparison is not so clear - the Nazis put living people there against their will, while people who specifically asked for it, paid for it, and of course after their natural death are brought to the crematorium. But what to do, in a country infected with holocaust denial in relation to the survivors who built it, apparently everything is allowed.

The Attorney General permitted the service

On the website I have fallen It was reported that in December 2006 the District Court in Jerusalem rejected a request for a restraining order against the cremation of the body of a person who had passed away. The beginning of the affair was a few days earlier, when a Jewish resident of Jerusalem passed away, who wanted his body to be cremated after his death. The deceased's widow and children wanted to fulfill his wish, but then a religious relative appealed to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court and asked to prevent the cremation of the body. The request for a restraining order was filed against the widow of the deceased and against the Ali Shlekht funeral home, which was supposed to carry out the burning.

In the Magistrate's Court, the Ali Shalekht company, through attorney Itzik Fink, claimed that the court lacked authority to hear the claim. The court accepted Ali Shilecht's position and the claim was transferred to the district court. In between, the Attorney General submitted his position on the matter, according to the court's request.

After a hearing was held before him, the district court also decided to reject the request outright and paved the way for the fire to be carried out. The court accepted the position of Ali Shilekht, according to which the Attorney General's announcement does not suggest that there is, in his view, a legal prohibition against cremation. The court also accepted the position of Ali Shalekht that it is necessary to delimit the scope of the family members who are allowed to interfere with the will of the deceased and the will of the immediate family.

The company's website also provides rebuttals to two common claims:

* Is cremation allowed in Israel? - "The legal opinions we received state unequivocally that there is no prohibition of burning, but exactly the opposite - there are a large number of laws that support the idea in practice, such as the Freedom of Occupation Law, the Alternative Burial Law, Human Dignity and Freedom, Environmental Laws and more."

* Is cremation prohibited according to Judaism? - "Not true. When she asked one of the rabbis on the subject, we received an unequivocal answer not only that this is not against Judaism, but that it was the practice during the time of the kings. In the Bible you can find several quotes for this. From the quotes it turns out that King Shaul was one of the prominent ones whose body was burned."

After the fire, the company offers four basic options for continuing the separation process:

• Scattering the ashes in nature or in a place close to the heart of the deceased.
• Keeping the urn of ashes in the family home.
• Storage of the urn of ashes in the columbarium, where there is usually also a hall for conducting memorial ceremonies.
• The burial of the urn of ashes, usually in the form of a burial in a cemetery, including setting a gravestone.

The website also provides data regarding the rates of use of fire in the world:

• U.S26%
• קנדה45%
• Netherlands68%
• בריטניה70%
• Japan is close to100%