[Avodah] burial

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From: Gershon Dubin _gershon.dubin at juno.com_ (mailto:gershon.dubin at juno.com) 

Not "seem  to be";  ein malinin es hameis bYrushalayim.


On Thu, 18 Sep 2008  "Eli Turkel" <eliturkel at gmail.com>
writes:
> 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




>>>>>
To my surprise, I recently heard of a case where  somebody passed away in Y-m 
on a Friday and the burial was delayed until Sunday  while waiting for a son 
to arrive from America.  Until I heard about this I  thought it was actually 
against the law to delay a burial in Y-m.  My  father passed away on a Shabbos 
and the levayah was that night around  midnight.  They have procedures in 
place to advertise levayos quickly --  mainly paid sound trucks that go around 
various neighborhoods announcing the  levaya.  Even on such short notice large 
numbers of people will drop  everything and go to a late-night levayah of 
somebody they knew.


--Toby  Katz
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