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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>From: "kennethgmiller@juno.com" <A
href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</A><BR><BR>>
And finally there are many poskim who rule that<BR>> kevurah is only a
mitzvat d'rabbanan (see: Rambam<BR>> Hilchot Avel 14:1; Chavot Yair 139).
[--RJB]<BR><BR>>>Do we actually hold this way?<BR><BR>If we do, why would
a Kohen Gadol interrupt his d'Oraisa involvement with tzorchei tzibur, merely to
do a d'rabanan of mes
mitzvah?<<<BR><BR>>>>>><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>I don't know the answer to your question "Do we really hold this
way?" but it seems to me that even if the body doesn't have to be /buried/
it does have to be protected in some way. Cf the halacha about not leaving
the body of an executed criminal hanging overnight. You can't leave the
body exposed to the elements, to wild animals, even to the stares of passing
people. If it doesn't have to be put in the ground, it has to be covered
and put /somewhere/ that is honorable and safe from desecration. </DIV>
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