According to the article, a few months back it was discovered that the area of Har Hamenuchos where the graves are built in "stories" above ground (though not halachically above ground because of the way they are constructed) had a problem. The graves were leaking. That's right, leaking. As the bodies decompose, fluids and juices were leaking out of the graves and down on to the pavement and basically running down the road.
When it was discovered this past summer, according to the article, ZAKA got involved in sponging up the leaking fluids and buried them while management worked to resolve the problem and plug the leaks.
Now, with the steady and heavy rains, the leak is back.
The Eida has gotten involved and sent its people over to check out the situation. They issued a kol koreh about the situation, along with parenthetically criticizing the IDF Rabbinate decision to bury Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers side by side (with a solution beneath ground to keep them from being "next to each other".
All I really have to say about this, is ewwww. gross. Bodies leaking out of graves! Yuch/yich/ichsa.
I hope they solve this. In addition to the kvod hameis issue, there are health concerns and there will also be emotional trauma involved if it continues.
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This is terrible, H' yerachem. Believe that the Eida is correct when they say this is punishment because in Eretz HaKodesh they are burying Jewish & non-Jewish soldiers together which is a great sin. Beware, the Jews of Israel must wake up and do teshuvah and regain the Jewish identity in the Land of Israel. At least, we must remember that the holy Shabbat is first & foremost, together with kashrut and all the 'basic' Jewish laws and customs. We have reached the 50th level of tumah and that is a very bad sign because Moshiach is at the door and if we do not fix what must be fixed, it will not come with glory or chesed, but, c'v, with great hardship. What has happened here is truly sad and unfortunate. Cease from all the public desecrations.
ReplyDeleteExcept...Har HaMenuchot is not a military cemetery. You're suggesting God has some interesting ways of expressing Himself.
DeleteReally doesn't matter what cemetary it is; if it is a Jewish one, it must not allow non-Jews to be buried there, soldiers or others!
ReplyDeleteNo one's talking about burying non-Jews on Har HaMenuchot.
DeleteAs to military cemeteries, it's easy for someone sitting on his computer and behind anonymity to opine. The actual halakha is a lot more complicated, and the Military Rabbinate, which has to deal with actual problems, has enough talmidei chachamim that can deal with this within the bounds of halakha.
A group that doesn't even recognize the State, let alone send their children to military service, has removed themselves from the issue, and should have the self-awareness a modesty to keep their mouths shut.