<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">"2. at a recent levaya, the chabad rabbis didnt allow any children or <br></span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">children in law to shovel the dirt</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">...."</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">This is the very first time I've ever heard children-IN-LAW who were</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">not allowed to shovel earth. With whatever reasoning that was used,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">the same reasoning might also be used to say that children-in-Law should</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">tear keriah. (By the way, just as a side, I think it's much more sensitive </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">to use the word "earth" rather than "dirt". You shovel "dirt" on a work </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">detail, but you utilize a blanket of "earth" for your loved ones).</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Kol tuv.</span></font></div><div>ri</div></body></html>