[Avodah] women at a funeral

[Zev Sero]

PS: I'm surprised that she was allowed to follow the coffin at all.
Many communities are careful not to allow a man's offspring to follow him,
and many make an explicit announcement to that effect.  (I've heard that
in Yerushalayim they're so careful about this that they don't allow them
to go to the grave at all, even by a different route, and that they even
extend it to women's funerals.)  I would have thought that Sefardim such as
this rabbi would be among those who are careful about this, so I'm surprised
that he forbade her from talking, but allowed her to walk after the coffin,
albeit among the women rather than the men.


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