Ask the Rabbi
- Family and Society
- Death and Mourning
- Burial and the Cemetery
Question
What is one permitted to say in a cemtery or in the presence of a dead body?
Answer
Any Torah that is taught or mentioned out of respect for the deceased is permitted. It is customary to say tehillim (Pnei Baruch 37,22).
Reinterment
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Tammuz 27, 5768
Uman
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tevet 8, 5781
Visiting a cemetery on Yom Kippur
Various Rabbis | 18 Tishrei 5768
