[Avodah] burial

Eli Turkel eliturkel at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 15:05:36 PDT 2008


<<Kiddush Hashem overrides Lo Salin - see Yerushalmi Kiddushin 4:1.>>

also any honors due the dead. This is why a funeral is sometimes
postponed if will bring a bigger crowd or immediate family can come.
I do recall some debates about some funerals of famous politicians
being postponed in Jerusalem

This does not seem to apply to Jerusalem where funerals seem to
be at night even when important people can't come. Of course
there was no eglah arufah in Jerusalem

-- 
Eli Turkel



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