DEATH AND MOURNING

• DEATH AND MOURNING
  • Introduction to Death and Mourning
  • Introduction to Death and Mourning
  • Close to Death
    • Changing Sick Person's Name
    • Changing Sick Person's Hebrew Name
    • Confession/Vidui
    • Vidui
  • Preparation of Body
    • Chevra Kadisha
    • Chevra Kadisha for Males and Females
    • Cleaning before Tahara
    • Blood
    • Wet Cloth and Soap
    • Tahara
    • No Tahara
    • Three Buckets of Water
    • Psukim
    • Dressing
    • Shrouds, Hat, Robe
    • Talit
    • Child's Dressing
    • Egg and Wine for Face of Dead Person
    • Positioning
    • Arms on Sides, Hands Open
    • Note on Christian Hospitals
    • Feet First
    • In the Presence of the Body
    • Lighted Candle Near Head of Dead Person
    • Put Dead Body on Floor
    • Shomer To Honor Dead Person
    • Shomer for Several Days
    • Woman Shomeret
    • Eating in Room with Body
    • From Funeral Home to Cemetery
    • Offspring at Funeral
    • Accompanying the Body: Jerusalem
  • Burial
    • Burial: Where
      • Burial: Jewish Cemetery
      • Jews Buried with Jews
      • Non-Jew Not Buried in Jewish Cemetery
      • Suicide
      • Burial: Eretz Yisrael
      • Burial: Eretz Yisrael If Did Not Live There
      • Burial: Near Offspring
      • Children Visiting Cemetery
    • Burial: When
    • Same-Day or Delayed Burial
    • Burial: Coffin
    • Coffin Material
    • Burial: Specifics
    • Pall-Bearers
    • Who Shovels
    • How To Shovel
    • Depth of Coffin
    • Burial: Kaddish
    • Burial: Kaddish: Version of Kaddish
    • Burial: Kaddish: Having Minyan
    • Burial: Kaddish: Attending Minyan
    • Burial: Leaving
    • Walking between Rows
    • Stepping on Graves
    • "Three-Times" Hand Washing
  • Mourning
    • Introduction to Mourning
    • Introduction to Mourning
    • Mourning: Who Must Mourn
    • Mourning: Who Must Mourn: Seven Categories
    • Mourning: Who Must Mourn: Before Burial/Onen
    • Mourning: Who Must Mourn: No Onenut on Shabbat and Jewish Festivals
    • Mourning: Who Must Mourn: After Burial/Avel
    • Mourning: How Long To Mourn
    • Mourning: How Long To Mourn: Parents or Others
    • Mourning: How To Mourn
      • Being an Onen
      • Onen Restrictions
      • Onen Traveling with Body
      • Being an Onen: Saying Kaddish
      • Kri'a: Tearing the Clothes
        • Kri'a: Who Tears
        • Children and Kri'a
        • Women and Kri'a
        • Kri'a: On What To Tear
        • What To Tear for Kri'a
        • Kri'a: When To Tear
        • Tear at News or Funeral Home
        • Kri'a: How To Tear
        • How To Tear Kri'a
        • Kri'a: How Often To Tear
        • Kri'a: How Often for a Parent
        • Kri'a: How Often for Non-Parents
      • Shiv'a
        • Shiv'a: Purpose
        • Shiv'a: Purpose
        • Shiv'a (and Shloshim): Timing
          • When Shiv'a (and Shloshim) Starts
          • When Shiv'a (and Shloshim) Starts: Normal Days
          • When Shiv'a (and Shloshim) Starts: Jewish Festivals
          • How Long Shiv'a (and Shloshim) Lasts
          • Duration of Shiv'a (and Shloshim)
          • When Shiv’a Resumes
          • When Shiv'a Resumes: Shabbat
          • When Shiv'a Resumes: Jewish Festival
          • When Shiv'a Resumes: Purim
          • When Shiv'a Resumes: Chanuka
          • When Shiv'a Resumes: Rosh Chodesh
          • When Shiv'a Ends
          • When Shiv'a Ends: Onen
          • When Shiv'a Ends: Non-Onen Who Finds Out Later
        • Shiv'a: Location
        • Ideal Location of Shiv'a
        • Shiv'a in Several Locations
        • Shiv'a: Leaving the House
        • Mourners' Leaving the Shiv'a House
        • Shiv'a and Going Elsewhere To Sleep
        • Shiv'a: Minyan
        • Reason for Shiv'a House Minyan
        • Shiv'a: Furnishings
        • Shiv'a: Furnishings: Seat Height
        • Shiv'a: Furnishings: Mirrors
        • Shiv'a: Furnishing: Candle
        • Shiv'a: Meals
          • First Shiv'a Meal
          • First Shiv'a Meal: Bread and Egg
          • First Shiv'a Meal: Prepared by Others
          • Bringing Food to Shiv'a House
          • Bringing Food to Shiv'a House
        • Shiv'a: Daily Life
          • Shiv'a: Bathing
          • Bathing during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Business
          • Business during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Clothing
          • Clothing during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Driving
          • Driving during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Gifts
          • Gifts during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Greeting
          • Greeting during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Laundry
          • Laundry during Shiv'a
          • Shiv’a: Make Up
          • No Make Up for Mourner
          • Shiv'a: Marital Relations
          • Marital Relations during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Shabbat and Public Mourning
          • Shiv'a: Mourning on Shabbat
          • Shiv'a: Entering Synagogue Friday Night
          • Women and Public Consolation after Kabbalat Shabbat
          • Shiv'a: Tefilin on First Day
          • Tefilin: First Day of Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Torah Study
          • Torah Study during Shiv'a
          • Shiv'a: Washing, Haircuts, Shaving
          • Washing, Haircuts, Shaving during Shiv'a
      • Mourner's Kaddish
        • Kaddish: For Whom To Say
        • Kaddish for Parents/Exceptions
        • Kaddish for Relatives Other than Parents
        • Kaddish: How Long To Say
        • Kaddish: How Long To Say: Shomer Shabbat or Not
        • Kaddish Timing: Last Day of Kaddish
        • Kaddish: Who Should Say
        • Kaddish: Who Should Say: Sons Six and Above
        • Kaddish: Who Should Say: Women
        • Kaddish: How Often To Say
        • Kaddish Frequency: Needs of Dead Person
        • Kaddish Frequency: Requirements of Sons
        • Saying Kaddish Multiple Times
        • Kaddish: With Whom To Say
        • Saying Kaddish in Unison
      • Thirty Days of Mourning (Shloshim)
        • When Shiv'a (and Shloshim) Ends
        • Shiv'a and Shloshim: Ended by Jewish Festivals
        • Shloshim: Daily Life
          • Shloshim: Bathing
          • Bathing during Shloshim
          • Shloshim: Clothing
          • Clothing during Shloshim
          • Shloshim: Haircuts
          • Haircuts during Shloshim
          • Shloshim: Kiddush
          • Kiddush Club during Shloshim
          • Shloshim: Nail Cutting
          • Nail Cutting during Shloshim
          • Shloshim: Shaving
          • Shaving during Shloshim
          • Shloshim: Getting Married
          • Wedding during Shloshim
      • Year of Mourning
        • Year-of-Mourning: Time Period
        • Mourner Period When Shiv'a or Shloshim Are Shortened
        • Year-of-Mourning: Practices
          • Year of Mourning: Marrying
          • Remarrying after a Wife Dies
          • Remarrying after a Husband Dies
          • Year of Mourning: New Clothing
          • New Clothing during Year of Mourning for Parent
          • Year of Mourning: Mourners Leading a Minyan
          • Mourners Leading a Minyan
          • Year of Mourning: Public Festivities
          • Public Festivities for Mourner for Parent
          • Public Festivities for Mourner for Non-Parent
          • Year of Mourning: SheHecheyanu
          • SheHecheyanu
          • Year of Mourning: Synagogue Seat
          • Synagogue Seat When Mourning for Parent
  • Tombstones and Graves
    • Tombstones
    • When To Set Up Tombstone
    • What To Have Engraved on Tombstone
    • Tombstone if Hebrew Name Unknown
    • Graves
      • How To Treat Graves
      • Graves: Photographs
      • Graves: Visiting
      • Graves: Stepping on
      • Graves: Leaving Stone
  • Yahrzeit
    • Yarhzeit: Date
    • Yahrzeit: Timing
    • Yarhzeit: Candle
      • Yarhzeit: Candle: Day of Yahrzeit
      • Yahrzeit: Candle: Day of Yahrzeit
      • Yahrzeit: Candle: How Many Candles
      • Yahrzeit: Candle: How Many Candles: Yahrzeit and Yizkor
      • Yahrzeit: Candle: How Many Candles: One per Household
    • Yahrzeit: Fasting
    • Fasting on Yahrzeit of Parents