• THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 48—Friday, December 13, 1968 Digging for Love in Israel a. By various channels it may have reached the ears of the adventur- ous that one way of spending a cheap holiday in Israel is to volun- teer for an archaeological excava- tion there. But whoever contem- plates this plan solely as a means to a cheap holiday would do well to dismiss the intention here and now. Archaeological holidays are not really cheap. They are fun. Even in the circumstances and countries where paid manual labor is not prohibitive in cost, archaeol- ogists need intelligent volunteers when they want to carry out an excavation. If labor is expensive or primitive, the problem is still more acute, but in any case, none but the most restricted excavation can be effectively run or made to yield its full results if the director alone is the supervisor. 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The other warning is that no volunteers should join an excavation for less than two weeks, because they need time to learn their elementary duties, and only after that will they be of profit to the excavation and in a position to appreciate the job. The longer they can stay, the more they are likely to experience satisfaction and see something of interest. Good weath- er, friendliness and the intriguing quality of the new-old land are to be found by all open to receive them. What about health and physical fitness? A high degree of physical work is not usually demanded of the volunteer on a normal excava- tion, but stamina is. He is not usu- ally asked to dig with pick and shovel, but to supervise or to per- form delicate operations of search and cleaning with small tools. But this is tiring and he should not be liable to sunstroke or allergic to dust. Also, the volunteer should be ready for smple conditions and equipped with a sense of humor, possession of which performs mir- acles even with persons of com- pletely alien mentalities. Inquiries from prospective volun- teers should be addressed to The Deputy Director, The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Educa- tion and Culture, Jerusalem, Israel. The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nu- siances. Robert Lynd, BR 2-1600 1 — Best Wishes on Hanuka r Pollak's Custom Dress Making 1 9490 • • • i Hanuka Greetings Livernois CURTIS DRUGS DI 1-2450 ......................4, Hanuka Greetings Holiday Good Cheer * 18011 Hubbell UN 4-6203 CHARLES M. CLAPSADDLE 33 Vernier Road Grosse Pointe Shores TU 4-3980 41 -II . * *A AA ****************4'. **************** 4 L Happy Hanuka TOMMY'S BARBER SHOP 000000 (Copyright 1967, JTA Inc.) Historians who specialize in the history of the Second Common- wealth (e.g. Zeitlin) claim that the coffin as such was originally used only as a means of transportation when the grave was far away from the place where the individual died. Thus, Joseph, whose remains had to be transported from Egypt to Israel through forty years of travel, had his body placed in some type of coffin. Many Jews who lived outside of Judea and wanted their remains taken to Judea for burial, were brought to their eternal rest- ing place in coffins. Some, who wanted to be buried alongside their parents or in family burial plots, had their remains transported in the coffin. Eventually people be- gan using the coffins as containers in which the dead were actually buried. It is interesting to note that many observant Jews of our gen- eration insisted that while they be transported to their burial lot in a coffin, that they nevertheless be removed from the coffin and placed in the grave without the coffin. In such a case the coffin was usually burned since its use was prohibited once it had already been used by the corpse for which it was origi- nally acquired. The face of the deceased is always covered in traditional Jewish funerals. Originally, it seems that some had their faces uncovered. This led to a situation where the rich who could afford to doctor up the faces of their deceased would have the faces uncovered while the poor who could not afford such luxury would have their faces covered in embarrassment. It was thus or- dained that all the faces of the deceased be covered so as to make no distinction between rich and poor. Generally speaking the rabbis sought to prohibit the bodies of the deceased from being uncov- ered so as to prevent people from concerning themselves with the spiritual entity of the human being. For this reason it was considered a prohibition by the Rabbis for anyone to gaze upon the face of the deceased. 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