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- 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).
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