[Avodah] Rav Moshe Shternbuch: Is It A Mitzva To Attend The Funeral Of A Non-Jew?

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://revach.net/article.php?id=4218

The Bais Yosef (YD 367) brings from the Kol Bo that there is a mitzva 
to be Melavah an Akum four amos.  The Bais Yosef explains that this 
refers to Chasidei Umos HaOlam because they have a Cheilek of Olam Haba.

Rav Moshe Shternbuch (1:721) brings the Rambam who says that this is 
only if the Akum kept the seven Mitzvos Bnei Noach.  Moreover he 
needed to have kept them because that is what Hashem wanted and not 
merely as a humanitarian gesture.  However says Rav Shternbuch, from 
the words of the Bais Yosef it seems that any Akum who is kind to Am 
Yisroel has this status, as long as he in fact keeps the seven 
mitzvos, even if it isn't Lishma.

 From here we learn, says Rav Shternbuch, that any Akum that was good 
to Am Yisroel, not only could we pay him his last respects, but it is 
even a mitzva to do so.  This will also show our Hakoras Ha Tov and 
make a Kiddush Hashem.


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