They are people that you--the community--trusts, that people are willing to let into their home and discuss things like death; that was an innovation that came in then.

他们在社区中享有威望,人们希望他们进入自己家中,并愿意与之讨论一些不快的话题,如死亡,这个创新从那以后就流行了起来

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the word "Jew" isn't something we can really historically use until about this time , so most of our period we're going to be talking about the ancient Israelites to become an Israelite, you simply joined the Israelite community, you lived an Israelite life, you died an Israelite death.

关于Jew这词历史上,直到公元前500年才开始用，所以我们的大多数时间,将会讨论古以色列人,成为一个以色列人，你只要加入以色列人社区，按以色列人方式生活，按其方式安葬。

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