Sunday, May 27, 2007

They shall carry on the shoulder (Bamidbar 7:9)

This week we read Parshat Naso, the longest sidra and the one that hypnotizes the ba'al korei with twelve identical offerings of the tribal princes at the dedication of the mishkan (take it from me - I've been a ba'al korei over 40 years). Earlier in the sidra, we read of how the tribal princes contributed six oxcarts and twelve oxen to carry the disassembled mishkan (portable sanctuary) from one desert encampment to the next. The oxcarts were assigned to the Levitical families of Gershon and Merari to carry the curtains, covers, boards, planks and such. The Kehat family was responsible for transporting the actual klei kodesh - the ark, showbread table, menorah, both altars and associated implements. They were not given any of the carts, as it would be unseemly to transport these items in that manner. The men of Kehat carried the holy vessels on their shoulders.

Some years ago I had occasion to attend an Irish wake when my boss lost his father. The body, dead for several days, lay dressed up in an open casket with a "getchka" looking down on him, while many of those attending laughed and joked. I hope I never have to go to an Irish wake again; our way is so much better - except for one thing. At most Jewish funerals I've been to, the casket is wheeled out of the chapel on a cart, through a back door, by one of the chapel workers, and placed in the hearse. At Gentile funerals the casket is typically carried out of the church through the front door by men. If inanimate objects had to be carried on the shoulders of men, how much more so a human body partaking of the tzelem elokim. Anything else is a bizayon, a denigration of the deceased, as if he was not worth a few suits getting wrinkled or, worse, that we Jews are a bunch of weaklings and we can't find six men strong enough to carry the casket.

I have affirmed Jewish strength all of my adult life and I wish to do so in death. When my time comes, if you can't take me out the front because of kohanim on the street, very well, take me out the back, but don't wheel me on that awful cart. I wish to be carried out on the broad shoulders of strong Jewish men. בכתף ישאו.

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