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Ayin Harah (The Evil Eye) –> False!

hamsa Are you superstitious? Do you avoid walking under a ladder? Do you wear a hamsa, or say keinahora?

We may not want to admit it, but many of us are, at least a little bit, superstitious.

Some people avoid talking about organ donation, or signing a donor card, believing this will invoke the “evil eye.” Even though we know that saying or thinking something bad doesn’t make it come true. If you really believed that, you would not buy health, life, or any other insurance. In addition, the millions of people who have signed donor cards, and who are still alive and healthy, disproves this ancient superstition.

 

You need your organs for resurrection –> False!

While being buried whole is valued in Judaism, there is no source in classical Jewish literature that says you need to be buried with your organs in order to be resurrected.

In fact, a few months after death, organs disintegrate, and eventually even bones decay.

Rabbis assure us that G-d will restore our bodies to health and wholeness at the time of resurrection.

jewish ossuaries

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Historical Jewish texts and archeological findings both indicate that the dead were often placed in a niche in a burial cave until their remains had decayed. The bones were later gathered, and either placed in a pit or into small stone boxes, called an ossuaries (as was the Greek custom at the time of the Second Temple).

(Reference: HODS.org)