DEATH: Torah; Do Not Murder Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:7 : “Do Not Kill” in Christian translations in accordance with Jesus’ ‘turn the other cheek’ philosophy. But killing in Self Defense is O.K. Exodus 22:2. A man breaks into your house OK to kill Exodus 22:2 but by day not OK 22:3 Death Penalty:OK Genesis 9:6, but only if there are two witnesses Numbers 35:30. Mishnah makes it very, very, difficult to convict. Suicide wrong but Samson, King Saul and Masada OK Abortion is not murder. Miscarriage due to strife is a tort, not a crime Exodus 21:22 because soul does not enter at birth but closer to exit from womb. Genesis 4:7.

BURIAL: Principle one; All creatures go to one place: of earth they were made, and into the earth they return Ecclesiastes 3:20 so this life is really important. Rabbi Yaakov taught “One hour of repentance and good deeds in this world is better than all the life of the World to Come Mishnah Avot 4:17. Principle two: Do not do what the Egyptians did. i.e. no mummy: so no embalming, and........

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