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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning

by Maurice Lamm

A standard guide to the laws and customs of Jewish death, burial and mourning, written by an Orthodox rabbi. Lamm explains the funeral, shiva, shloshim, the year of mourning, the Kaddish and the yahrzeit, with the reasons given in traditional sources.

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