[Avodah] Levaya minhagim

[Friedman Family]

Zev Sero wrote
>She'elas Tam: how do you know there wasn't any k'ri`ah done?  Women only
>tear an undergarment, and they do it privately, usually inside a car or
>somewhere like that, so maybe you just didn't notice.  Or maybe it was
>delayed until after the crowd left, for greater privacy.

I am not sure where that information comes from.  Again, when we sat shiva,
we tore our shirts and then pined them closed with a safety pin.  That's the
way I have always seen it done.  And in the all cases I have been privy too,
the women tore kriah at the chapel, or at the airport.

Chumi Friedman