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 ==When to tear Keriyah==
-# Preferably, one should tear Keriyah before the grave is closed since that is the time when the [[mourning]] is most intense. <ref>Kitzur S”A 195:1</ref>
+# Ideally a person should tear kriyah immediately or as soon as possible after the person dies or he hears about it.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:1, Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 1 p. 226)</ref> The minhag, however, is to tear kriyah after the burial or before the seudat havrah. This minhag has what to rely upon.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 1 p. 226) writes that the Sephardic minhag to tear kriyah after the burial has what to rely upon. Rav Mordechai Eliyahu's comment on Kitzur S”A 195:2 confirms this minhag.</ref>
-# Nowadays, the sephardic minhag is to tear Keriyah after the grave is closed. <ref>Rav Mordechai Eliyahu's comment on Kitzur S”A 195:2</ref>
 # If someone's relative died he doesn't tear keriya on Yom Tov even the second day.<ref>Rambam (Aveilut 11:1), Shulchan Aruch YD 399:13</ref>
 # On Chol Hamoed it is permitted to tear kriyah for a relative for whom one has an obligation to tear kriyah.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 401:2</ref>