[Avodah] women at a funeral

[Zev Sero]

Elazar M. Teitz wrote:
>> <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.) >  

> The reason given for the minhag has no applicability at all to a woman's
> funeral.

Exactly.  And yet, AIUI, the tradition in Y'm has been to extend it that
far.  I don't know why, or on what authority, or whether there was ever an
adam gadol who endorsed this extension, but AIUI it is so.  My point was to
show how careful people are about this, and therefore to express my surprise
that this rov, who was concerned about women speaking at a funeral, and who
wouldn't allow the daughter to walk in front of the men, seemed to have no
problem with her following the coffin after the men.


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