[Avodah] Kohanim in Cemeteries

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From: "Jonathan Baker" _jjbaker at panix.com_ (mailto:jjbaker at panix.com) 

>>Even aside from that, kohanim go to the cemetery for the  shiva krovim,
or even for their spouse's shiva krovim, but stay on the  concrete
paths.  My grandmother's family was Kohanim.  Uncle  Malcolm came to
all the levayas for his sisters, and I think some of my Kahn  cousins
came as well, but stayed on the path. <<
 
>>>>>
For their shiva krovim, they can go to the cemetery.  For wife's shiva  
krovim, no.  Except as you say, by staying away from the kevarim and going  only 
where kohanim are allowed to go.  (Wife's shiva krovim are  irrelevant  -- 
wherever kohanim are allowed to walk, they are allowed to  walk regardless of whose 
burial it is.)
 
 
 
> > Naturally I have to wonder if this is one of those things we  have 
"always"
> known and "always" done that people really only started  doing with the
> passing of the last Lubavitcher rebbe. [--old  TK]

>>No, no, many of my mother's relatives died before the  Lubavitcher Rebbe.<<

>>>>>
Your mother's relatives used a kohen box to visit the cemetery before the  
Lubavitcher Rebbe passed away?
 
I must say I'm dubious.  Didn't you just say they stayed on the  path?  That 
doesn't sound like they used these new kohen boxes (which some  claim are not 
new at all, but I don't believe it).





--Toby  Katz
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