[Avodah] Attending religious services other than Jewish

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

RGD:
> A RC associate at my firm died a few years ago, and the religious
> people at the firm went to the wake (which was in a funeral chapel)
> (One person, a kohen, went early enough to "catch" the family at home
> and express his condolences, thereby avoiding issues of tum'as ohel)

R Gershon might be suggesting a novel solution:

[Mashal]
Just as Jewish Kohanim attend funerals but only by remaining outside
the funeral home,
[Nimshal]
so we - the proverbial "mamleches kohanim" - could do the same by
attending these services but still remain outside the ohel.

Gut Voch
RRW
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