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size=2>From: "Jonathan Baker" <A
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size=2><BR>>>Even aside from that, kohanim go to the cemetery for the
shiva krovim,<BR>or even for their spouse's shiva krovim, but stay on the
concrete<BR>paths. My grandmother's family was Kohanim. Uncle
Malcolm came to<BR>all the levayas for his sisters, and I think some of my Kahn
cousins<BR>came as well, but stayed on the path. <<</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>For their shiva krovim, they can go to the cemetery. For wife's shiva
krovim, no. Except as you say, by staying away from the kevarim and going
only where kohanim are allowed to go. (Wife's shiva krovim are
irrelevant -- wherever kohanim are allowed to walk, they are allowed to
walk regardless of whose burial it is.)</DIV>
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size=2>> > Naturally I have to wonder if this is one of those things we
have "always"<BR>> known and "always" done that people really only started
doing with the<BR>> passing of the last Lubavitcher rebbe. [--old
TK]<BR><BR>>>No, no, many of my mother's relatives died before the
Lubavitcher Rebbe.<<<BR><BR>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>Your mother's relatives used a kohen box to visit the cemetery before the
Lubavitcher Rebbe passed away?</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>I must say I'm dubious. Didn't you just say they stayed on the
path? That doesn't sound like they used these new kohen boxes (which some
claim are not new at all, but I don't believe it).<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
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