Shulchan Arukh Orach Chayim · Siman 23

Shulchan Arukh Orach Chayim 23 — English translation

Translation: Wikisource Shulchan Aruch. Section numbers match the Hebrew text above.

1. 1It is permitted to enter a cemetery while wearing tzitzit as long as the fringes do not drag on the graves. But if the fringes drag on the graves it is forbidden as an example of "mocking the poor." The conditional prohibition (only if the fringes are dragging on the graves) applied in their (Talmudic) times, when they placed fringes on their daily garments, but for we who wear fringed garments only for the sake of fulfilling the mitzvah (of tzitzit), it is forbidden even if the fringes do not drag on the graves. However, it is forbidden only if the fringes are visible, but if they are covered, it is permitted.
2. 2There are those with the custom to tie two tzitzit on two corners together when they enter a cemetery and there is no purpose in doing so.
3. 3The laws of one who goes within four cubits of a corpse or of a grave are the same as those for one who enters a cemetery.
4. 4In those places where it is the custom to remove the tzitzit from a dead person's tallit in the home, if the pallbearers wear tzitzit there is reason to suspect transgression of "mocking the poor."

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