<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:21, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:03:20PM +0200, Danny Schoemann wrote:<br>
:> I therefore assume it is only a custom. I do not recall seeing<br>
<div class="im">:> it quoted in the Shulchan Aruch.<br>
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</div>: Try SA YD 352 and the Rambam in Sefer Shoftim -- Hil. Avel Ch. 4<br>
<div class="im">: But it's already a Mishna in Shabbat: Ch. 23 Mishna 5 (on Daf 151)<br>
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</div>Which is why I phrased the question as when did rechitzah turn into a<br>
pseudo-taharah, with immersion in 40 se'ah or having 9 qav poured upon<br>
the body.<br>
<br>
It's not mitaheir -- the body is still tamei meis. So why/how/when did<br>
rechitzah get conflated with taharah?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>The entire preparation process is called tahara. What I learned from the person who taught me to do "chevra work" that 9 qav was always used. Mikva is a more recent (that is a relative term) thing that used to only be used for "Rebbes". I was at the YU seforim sale last night. The one book that dealt with chevra kaddisha, traces it to the Maharil. He was only a codifier of existing practices. These practices had been going on well before him.<br>
<br>Saul<br></div>