Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah · Siman 354

Shulchan Arukh Yoreh De'ah 354 — English translation

Translation: Code of Hebrew Law by Chaim N. Denburg, Montreal, 1955. Section numbers match the Hebrew text above.

1. 1A city wherein two corpses are [awaiting burial], one brings out the first one and then one brings out the second one. If one kept over § 357), they need not keep over the second one on account of the first, since the first corpse will not be brought out for burial at present in any case — Ta Z, ShaK. the first [corpse], one brings out the second one. [If] a Hakam and a Talmid Hakam It follows that Talmid Ḥakam here means ‘a disciple of a Ḥakam ’ in contradistintion to the same term used elsewhere. Kid. 49b; E.H. § 38, 27-28 for the meaning of Ḥakam , and Talmid. Cf. also Ta‘an. 10b, Tosaf. s.v. איזהו ; M.Abr. O.Ḥ. § 575 beg. [are awaiting burial], one brings out [first] the Hakam; [if] a Talmid Hakam and an Am Ha-arez , It follows that Talmid Ḥakam here means ‘a disciple of a Ḥakam ’ in contradistintion to the same term used elsewhere. Kid. 49b; E.H. § 38, 27-28 for the meaning of Ḥakam , and Talmid. Cf. also Ta‘an. 10b, Tosaf. s.v. איזהו ; M.Abr. O.Ḥ. § 575 beg. one brings out [first] the Talmid Hakam; or both are Talmidim , or both are Ame Ha-areẓ , they bring out (for burial) the first,’ i.e., the one who died first. [if] a man and a woman, one brings out the woman [first], states that in this respect there is no difference between a young girl, an elderly woman, and a pregnant or nursing woman — P.Tesh. for she is prone [to be subjected] to pudendal § 355 and Mishna M.K. 27a. disgrace. [After] one brought out the first one and buried him, one does not stand in the line [of comforters] for him, nor does one recite the mourners' benediction for him, nor does one offer condolence to the mourners until one brings out the second one. [After] one has brought out the second one and buried him, comforters come and stand in the line Another reading in Sem. has, ‘and they come and stand in line and comfort.’ and [then the mourners] give leave of departure to the many [comforters]. Two [separate] mourners are not comforted simultaneously unless their [degree] of honour and praise is equal. M.K. Sem. ibid. adds here, ‘they do not bring out two corpses on one bier unless their (degree of) honour and praise is equal.’

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