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

[Dov Weinstock]

Something that has puzzled me for some time is the labeling of ordinary
midot as somehow constituting a Kiddush Hashem. Honestly, it is quite common
among Jews and non-Jews alike to go to funerals. I submit that the vast
majority of people do so regardless of the religion of the dead person, it
is more a function of the relationship they had with the person. Does anyone
really think that a religious Jew going to a funeral of a non-Jewish person
will somehow be seen as a function of their Jewishness and/or their
specifically Jewish relationship with God?

 

Dov Weinstock   


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