Course 2 - Tahara and Shmira

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Gamliel Institute – Course 2 – Tahara and Shmira

Course 2 of the Gamliel Institute is Tahara and Shmira – Ritual Washing and Guarding.

Tuition for Course 2 is $1,000

To register go to the Gamliel Institute Course 2 Registration Form

To pay for the course go to the credit card payment page

For more information contact David Zinner or Stuart Kelman

Part A - Tahara Essentials and Study – On-site – Conference & Post Conference
Day	Session	Time	Tahara Track & Plenary Sessions
Sunday June 6	Workshop 1	2:10-4:10	Tahara Demonstration – coordinated by Rick Light
	Workshop 2	4:20-6:20	Tahara Q & A
	Plenary 2	7:30-8:30	Rabbi Arnold Goodman - 35 years after Plain Pine Box
Monday June 7	Plenary 3	8:30-9:30	Richard Fishman - The Future of Cemeteries
	Workshop 3	9:40-11:40	Complicated Tahara - Dr. Michael Slater
	Plenary 4	12:35-1:35	Lunch Speaker - Simcha Raphael - A Guide To The Afterlife For Contemporary Hevra Kaddisha Practice
	Workshop 4	1:40-3:40	Processing Emotions - Rabbi Mel Glazer
	Workshop 5	3:50-5:50	Mortuary Manuals - David Sclar
		8:15-10:00	Cremation Round Table
	Plenary 5	7:00-8:00	Rabbi Mel Glazer - Caring for the Caregivers
Tuesday June 8	Plenary 6	8:30-9:30	Green Burial and Green Cemeteries
	Workshop 6	10:00-Noon	Organ & Tissue Donation
	Gamliel 1	1:30-5:30	Tahara – Manuals and Tefila – David Sclar and Rabbi Stuart Kelman
		6:00-7:30	Gamliel - Dinner
	Gamliel 2	8:00-10:00	Tahara Q & A – David Zinner
Wednesday June 9		7:00-8:00	Gamliel - Breakfast
	Gamliel 3	8:00-12:00	Infection Control – Reps from the CDC
		12:00-1:00	Gamliel - Lunch

Course 2 - Tahara Essentials and Study – Detailed Outline

Part A

I. Tahara Demonstration – Coordinated by Rick Light

II. Complicated Tahara – Dr. Michael Slater

A. tubes and medical devices

B. bleeding

C. smell

D. suicide

E. autopsy

F. organ donation

III. Processing Emotions after Tahara – Rabbi Mel Glazer

IV. Tahara Manuals – Dr. David Sclar and Rabbi Stuart Kelman

A. History and Development

1. How are they used

a. Reader from a book

b. Reader from wall poster

c. Read in unison

d. Study

2. Provenance and distribution

3. Examples

a. Chicago – Jewish Sacred Society

b. New Haven

c. Kelman

d. Web site

4. Variations in tefila

5. Creation of new manuals

6. Availability of existing manuals

B. Tahara Tefila

1. Understanding the meaning

a. terminology

2. What are the sources

3. When do we say them

a. before, during and after Rechitza,

b. Tahara

c. Halbasha b’tachrichim

d. closing ritual

4. kavanah

5. following the rosh

6. Variations

a. Ashkenazi and Sephardi

b. Orthodox and non-Orthodox

7. Gender appropriate language

V. Tahara Training Q & A – David Zinner

A. Review

1. Rechitza

a. supplies

b. adhesives, bandages, pads, tubes, stitches, tape

c. soap

d. internal cleansing

e. ears

f. nails

g. hair

h. bed sores

i. tubes

j. bleeding

k. false teeth, prosthetics

2. Purification

a. pouring

i. supine - boards

ii. wedge

iii. standing

b. mikvah

i. mechanical lift

ii. automated lift

3. Halbasha b’Tachrichim – Dressing in Burial Garments

a. Gamliel

b. number of pieces

c. socks vs. feet sewn shut

d. single pieces

e. kittel used for Yom Kippur

f. removing metal

g. tallit

h. kippah

i. tying knots

j. Afar - dirt or sand from Israel

k. gerblach – pottery

l. wine or vinegar with egg wash

m. Lifts and pulleys

B. Special Minhagim

1. internal cleansing

2. mikvah vs. nine kavim

3. egg white & vinegar

4. sherblach - pottery

5. gerblach – sticks

C. Learning the techniques

1. video

2. mannequin

3. observing

4. apprentice to another CK

5. first time

6. veterans of other minhagim

VI. Tahara Safety Review – CDC representative

A. Infection control

1. types of infections

2. how infections spread

B. barrier protection

C. Vaccination

D. Lifting correctly

Part B (on-line)

VII. Tahara Spirituality

A. Transformative Power of Tahara and Shmira

B. Meaning and Purpose of Tahara Rituals

VIII. Tahara Tradition

A. History and Sources

B. Tahor and Tameh

C. Tahara Responsa

IX. Tachrichim

A. History and Sources

B. Aron – Casket

X. Tahara Review

XI. Shmira - Guarding

XII. Tahara Facilities

A. Funeral Director and Funeral Homes

1. Cooperation

2. Problems

B. Home Tahara