Jewish Funeral Traditions At a Jewish funeral, a candle is placed by the deceased and he or she is never left alone. The reason why the body is not left alone is that the soul remains close to the body after its separation and is aware of the love and respect for its body. Shomrim, those who remain with the deceased, are responsible for staying and saying prayers over the body around the clock so that the holy prayers comfort the soul. The body is purified, washed carefully from head to toe (Taharah). The faces of the deceased are not allowed to turn out of respect for the deceased. The body is then dried, everything is done by the members of the burial society and they also dress the deceased with a plain, simple, handmade, clean white shroud called a takhrikhin, this has no pockets to show that the deceased cannot take anything with him to the grave. The takhrikhin is white to symbolize purity and dignity. A tallit is wrapped around the deceased and the tzitzit is cut to show that the deceased no longer needs to observe the mitzvot. The body is placed in a regular pine coffin and is buried, if possible, within 24 hours. hours, but not on a Shabbat or the first day of a festival. The corpse is brought to the grave on a simple beer. The beer is clear because the rich used to bring their deceased to the grave on big luxurious beds covered with rich blankets and the poor used to bring their deceased to the grave on plain beer, this shamed the poor , so a law was passed that said everyone had to be brought in. to the grave on a regular beer. All this is described in the Talmud. Death should not be a time to show off luxury and wealth because3 right in the middle of the paper for them. People may be afraid of the pain that comes with death and they may worry about not knowing. What will happen after their soul separates from their body, they may have a lot of questions, but people would say that faith takes away the fear and maybe God will take away the pain. Some may say that this world is a vestibule and the next is the palace, so the next world will be painless and better than this one. If you believe in God, you have nothing to fear. “The Lord God gave, and the Lord God has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21. They may just be afraid of dying, they have no reason to be afraid because death should be seen as an opportunity to "put one's house in order" and anyway, when the Messiah comes on earth during the messianicage, everyone will be reincarnated..