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# Someone who has a good reputation, isn't suspected of any aveirah or omission of a mitzvah, even if he isn't great in torah one should tear kriyah if he knew about it between the death and the burial.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 340:6</ref> The Ashkenazic minhag is not to tear kriyah on a good person unless one was present at the death.<ref>Rama YD 340:6</ref> | # Someone who has a good reputation, isn't suspected of any aveirah or omission of a mitzvah, even if he isn't great in torah one should tear kriyah if he knew about it between the death and the burial.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 340:6</ref> The Ashkenazic minhag is not to tear kriyah on a good person unless one was present at the death.<ref>Rama YD 340:6</ref> | ||
===Talmid Chacham=== | ===Talmid Chacham=== | ||
# The minhag is not to tear Keriyah upon hearing about the passing of a Talmid Chacham unless it is one's Rebbe Muvhak.<ref>Yalkut Yosef YD 9:15</ref> | # For a chacham or talmid chacham who could answer a question of halacha in any area of torah one should tear kriyah when oen hears about his death and if one missed that then when they eulogize him. This kriyah is until one reveals one's heart. Ashkenazim hold that this only applies to a talmid chacham who one learned from.<ref>Shulchan Aruch and Rama YD 340:7</ref> | ||
# The minhag is not to tear Keriyah upon hearing about the passing of a Talmid Chacham unless it is one's Rebbe Muvhak.<ref>Shach YD 340:17, Yalkut Yosef YD 9:15</ref> | |||
# A rebbe muvhak is someone who whom you learned the majority of your learning whether it is in tanach, mishna, or gemara. This kriyah is until one exposes one's heart and some say one tefach.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 340:8</ref> | |||
# The minhag is not to tear kriyah for a chevrusa from whom one learned from.<ref>Rama YD 340:8</ref> | |||
===Patient at time of death=== | ===Patient at time of death=== | ||
see Nishmas Avraham vol 1 oc 223:6 and vol 2 Y.D 340:2 for lengthy discussion | see Nishmas Avraham vol 1 oc 223:6 and vol 2 Y.D 340:2 for lengthy discussion | ||
