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- Family and Society
- Death and Mourning
- Burial and the Cemetery
Question
If a mother gives birth to a child when she is only 25 weeks pregnant. The child has operations to keep him alive but dies approximately 4-5 days after birth, Does the child have a proper Jewish funeral with a minyan and does the father say Kaddish?
Answer
One does not need a Minyan and one does not have to say Kaddish. If the father insists he can say Kaddish.
Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger

Onein saying Kaddish
Rabbi David Sperling | Tishrei 8, 5773

Reinterment
Rabbi David Sperling | Tammuz 18, 5774
Funeral and shiva minyan
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Nisan 30, 5773





