Outline for Course 2 – Chevra Kadisha: Tahara and Shmira
1 Tahara and Shmira
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Tahara Stories
1.3 Tahara: First-person Excerpts
1.4 Tahara for a Child
1.5 Tahara: Interviews
1.6 Tahara: God’s Presence
1.7 Tahara: Touching God’s Face
1.8 Tahara Stories: Muslims
1.9 Shmira Stories
1.10 Non-traditional Techniques
2 Understanding Tahara
2.1 Red Heifer
2.2 Biblical Purity
2.3 Tahor: Talmud
2.3.1 Talmud: Corpse Impurity
2.3.2 Tahor: Jacob Neusner
2.3.3 Tahor: Jacob Milgrom
2.4 Tahor: Rachel Adler
2.5 Tsaraat: Jack Riemer
2.6 Tahor: More Reading
2.7 Tahara: Why?
2.8 Tahara Text and Sources
2.8.1 Tahara – Aveilus Course
2.8.2 Maavor Yabok – Section on Taharah/Rechitzah
2.8.3 Maavar Yabok Outline
2.9 Tahara Responsa
2.10 Tahara and Kabbalah
2.11 Dead Souls
3 Tahara Education and Training
3.1 Death Avoidance
3.2 Community Education
3.2.1 Elements of My Jewish Funeral
3.3 Changing Existing Tahara Practices
3.3.1 Liberal or Improper Tahara
3.4 Tahara Team Training
3.4.1 Funeral Home Requirements
3.4.2 Tahara Supplies
3.4.3 Simulation Issues
3.4.4 Using a Live Model
3.4.5 Demo Using a Mannequin
3.4.6 Questions Before Tahara
3.4.7 Tahara Team Instructions
3.5 Muslim Tahara and Tachrichim
3.6 Tracking
4 Questions About Tahara
4.1 Privacy and Anonymity
4.2 Charging for Tahara
4.3 Tahara Boards
4.4 Covering the Face
4.5 Murder
4.6 Minhagim
4.6.1 Egg and Vinegar
4.6.2 Sephardic Rituals
4.7 Questions after a demo
4.8 More Questions
5 Tahara Complications
5.1 Physical Complications
5.2 Funeral Home Complications
5.3 Other Complications
5.4 Autopsy Questions
5.4.1 Autopsy – Medical
5.4.2 Autopsy – War Time
5.4.3 Autopsy – Legal Review
5.4.4 Autopsy – Dialog
5.4.5 Autopsy – Virginia
5.4.6 Autopsy – Southern California
5.4.7 Autopsy – New Jersey
5.4.8 Autopsy – Washington, DC
5.4.9 Autopsy – Native American
5.5 Organ and Tissue Donation
5.5.1 Organ Donation Resources
5.6 Embalming
5.6.1 Biblical Embalming?
5.6.2 What is Biblical Embalming
5.6.3 Embalming – War Time Responsa
5.6.4 Embalming Legalities
5.6.5 Embalming – Discussion
5.6.6 Embalming State by State Rules
5.7 Cremation
6 Processing Emotions
6.1 Before
6.2 Procedural Questions
6.3 Theological Questions
6.4 After Tahara
7 Tahara Manuals
7.1 History – part 1
7.2 History – part 2
7.3 History – Video and Ppt
7.4 Manual References
8 Tahara Liturgy
8.1 Meaning of Ritual
8.2 Meaning of Tahara Ritual
8.3 Tahara Tefila Text Teaching
8.3.1 Hine mitato
8.4 Seder Tahara
8.5 What Questions Does the Liturgy Answer
8.5.1 Tahara Liturgy – Revised
9 Tahara Safety
9.1 State Death Regulation
9.2 Minimizing Risk – Part 1
9.3 Minimizing Risk – Part 2
9.4 AIDS
9.5 Infection Control
9.6 Public Health Conference
10 Tachrichim and Aron
10.1 Tachrichim
10.1.1 Sewing Tachrichim
10.1.2 Tachrichim: Texts
10.1.2.1 Rabban Gamliel
10.1.2.2 Tachrichim – Aveilus
10.1.2.3 Tallit – War Time
10.1.3 Tachrichim – Context
10.1.4 Commercial Suppliers
10.1.5 Infant Tachrichim
10.1.6 Tachrichim – Sephardic
10.2 Aron
10.2.1 Masorti T’shuva
10.2.2 1, 2, or 3 arks – Brokenness
10.2.3 Talmudic References
10.2.4 Rambam and Epstein
10.2.5 An Orthodox Conversation
10.2.6 Another Orthodox Perspective
10.2.7 What is a Kosher Casket?
10.2.8 Casket Manufacturing
10.2.9 Funeral Contract
10.2.10 Modern Day Gamliel
10.2.11 Casket Sales
11 Shmira – Guarding
11.1 First Person Account
11.2 Rizpah
11.2.1 Rizpah Re-interpreted
11.2.2 Rizpah Poetry 1
11.2.3 Rizpah Poetry 2
11.2.4 Rizpah Poetry 3
11.2.5 Rizpah Poetry 4
11.3 Shmira in the Talmud
11.4 Shimira Guidelines
11.5 Shmira Stories
11.6 Shmira after 9/11
11.7 Organizing Shmira
11.8 Psalms and Sleep
12 Tahara Facilities
12.1 Tahara in Cemeteries
12.2 House of Rounds
12.3 Facility Requirements
12.4 Home Tahara
12.5 Creating Solutions