Levaya: Difference between revisions
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# If there is no chevra kaddisha then everyone in the town has to stop their work in order to prepare the person for burial. However, if there is a chevra kaddisha who is in charge of that then people only need to come during the levaya to the burial. Someone learning should only stop his learning at the time of the levaya to the burial but not during the preparations for the burial.<ref>Moed Katan 27b, Tosfot Ketubot 17a s.v. lehotzat, Shulchan Aruch YD 361:2</ref> | # If there is no chevra kaddisha then everyone in the town has to stop their work in order to prepare the person for burial. However, if there is a chevra kaddisha who is in charge of that then people only need to come during the levaya to the burial. Someone learning should only stop his learning at the time of the levaya to the burial but not during the preparations for the burial.<ref>Moed Katan 27b, Tosfot Ketubot 17a s.v. lehotzat, Shulchan Aruch YD 361:2</ref> | ||
# Even if there are enough people available to do the burial if someone sees a levaya it is still incumbent upon a person to escort the deceased to the burial at least four amot.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 361:3, Pitchei Teshuva 361:2 citing Yad Eliyahu</ref> | # Even if there are enough people available to do the burial if someone sees a levaya it is still incumbent upon a person to escort the deceased to the burial at least four amot.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 361:3, Pitchei Teshuva 361:2 citing Yad Eliyahu</ref> | ||
# For a infant who didn't survive thirty days there is no mitzvah to have a levaya.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 344:8, Nitai Gavriel (Aveilut v. 1 67:6)</ref> | |||
# Someone who sees the escorting of a non-Jewish funeral it is proper to join them.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 1 p. 317). See Kol Bo (114) and the citation of it in Bet Yosef 367:1</ref> However, it is forbidden to enter a church even for this purpose.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 1 p. 317)</ref> | |||
==Process of Levaya== | ==Process of Levaya== | ||
