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Man Wraps Himself in Plastic Bag to Protect Religious Purity aboard Plane

A Jewish man covered in life size plastic bag overseas in an airplane in recent times went viral on news giving out websites, sparking a deep debate relating to his motives.
At first it was believed that gentleman had donned the strange see through grab to space himself from women, because a number of particular Orthodox Jews follow strict rules of sex segregation in public places. 


Now it is believed that the man clothed in black and wearing a Jewish Kippah could be an associate of Kohanim, who trust that they are move down from priests of earliest Israel and cannot come in close touch with dead in order to guard their superior than average godliness. 







Apparently strict religious code prohibit from visiting cemeteries expect for the close relatives of the funerals and even flying over burial ground. Rabbi Yosef Shalom, leader of Lithuanian Haredi Community in Israel has recently found a solution of this problem, wrapping himself in thick plastic bag to protect religious purity when aero plane crossed over the cemetery is permissible. 


In a newspaper, a Jewish man reported that ‘’Kohanim have a duty to protect their purity and 
taharah.’’


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