Ask the Rabbi
- Family and Society
- Death and Mourning
- Burial and the Cemetery
Question
If I do a Taharah have I also fulfilled the Mitzvoh of Halvayat Hamet, even if after the Taharah I don’t go to the gravesite or even wait for the actual Levayah to begin?
Answer
The mitzvah of levaya is to accompany the deceased 4 amot on his way to the burial place. Tahara is a great mitzvah but not the mitzvah of levaya.
If the leveya did not begin and you need to leave you don’t need to wait.
Purification-Tahara
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 1 Tevet 5763
A deceased’s last wishes.
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 24 Tevet 5766
Grave visiting
Rabbi Eliezer S. Weisz | 2 Iyyar 5763
