{"id":1441,"date":"2020-06-10T18:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2020-06-24T18:35:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:35:58","slug":"mbor-funeral-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/06\/10\/mbor-funeral-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Board of Rabbis: Funeral Policy (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">There are two basic principles by which Jewish death and mourning rites are governed: <i>k\u2019vod ha-met<\/i>, \u201cthe dignified or respectful treatment of the dead,\u201d and <i>k\u2019vod he-chai<\/i>, \u201cthe honored treatment of the living (the surviving relatives).\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">In light of the current health situation and the desire to honor the deceased and to comfort their surviving relatives, the Michigan Board of Rabbis is updating its funeral procedures as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">Rabbis will officiate at graveside-only funerals with up to 36 mourners present. &nbsp;All present will wear masks and practice social distancing. &nbsp;Until further notice, funerals will not be held indoors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two basic principles by which Jewish death and mourning rites are governed: k\u2019vod ha-met, \u201cthe dignified or respectful treatment of the dead,\u201d and k\u2019vod he-chai, \u201cthe honored treatment of the living (the surviving relatives).\u201d In light of the current health situation and the desire to honor the deceased and to comfort their surviving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[524639],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}