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amother
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 Mon, Feb 08 2016, 5:12 pm
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Does the wife of a Kohen also have to go in a separate room for the Levaya?
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mille
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 5:14 pm
Nope. No need. You can also go to the cemetery no problems.
Sorry for your loss.
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amother
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 5:19 pm
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(Unless you are expecting and know that it is or might be a boy. Then it becomes a shaila.)
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zohar
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 5:34 pm
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When I was pregnant, I was told I couldn't be indoors with the meis. AYLOR
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mille
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 5:39 pm
| amother wrote: | | (Unless you are expecting and know that it is or might be a boy. Then it becomes a shaila.) |
Feel free to ask a shailah, but I was under the impression this is 100% minhag not halacha. Surely follow your community minhag, but I just want to point that out so as to not worry other wives of kohanim who may have been in such a situation in the past.
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amother
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 5:44 pm
| mille wrote: | | Feel free to ask a shailah, but I was under the impression this is 100% minhag not halacha. Surely follow your community minhag, but I just want to point that out so as to not worry other wives of kohanim who may have been in such a situation in the past. |
As I've been told, it's a machlokes haposkim; firstly as to whether one has to find out if it's a boy (or abstain out of doubt) and secondly whether if one happens to know that she's expecting a boy, she has to abstain from coming in contact with a meis. (See, for example, http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/S......html)
Hence, my use of word "shaila." There are certainly poskim who hold that it is halacha for a pregnant wife of a Kohen expecting a boy to not come in contact with a dead person.
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amother
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 5:44 pm
| amother wrote: | | (Unless you are expecting and know that it is or might be a boy. Then it becomes a shaila.) |
Okay thanks, that's what I thought. Someone just told me that until you're post menopause, you can't because there's always a chance you may be pregnant.
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sky
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 8:25 pm
the pregnant issue is minhag I believe.
I am married to a kohen and go to funerals and cemeteries, even when pregnant, no matter the gender.
I was told there are enough tight layers around the baby it is okay to go into a cemetery.
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chocolatecake
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 8:37 pm
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I am married to a kohen and was told to not go into funeral homes when pregnant...I guess it depends who u ask.
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momX4
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 8:46 pm
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Im not married to a kohen and was tild not to go into a funeral home when I was very pregnant.
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amother
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Mon, Feb 08 2016, 10:48 pm
Ask lor.
I am married to a kohen and when pregnant not allowed near meis or cemetery.
I was told I was having a girl and in fact I had a boy so its good I took precautions!
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