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Mourning In Halachah The laws and customs of the year of mourning. By Rabbi Chaim Binyamin Goldberg   List Price: $29.99 Online Discount: 10% You Pay Only: $26.99 Catalog #: MOUH ISBN-10: 0899061710 ISBN-13: 9780899061719 Binding: Hardcover / Pages: 504 Dimensions: 6" x 9" / Weight: 2.14 LBS Published: by ArtScroll / Mesorah In Stock?: YES Quantity:  1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Other Editions List Price   Online   Price   In Stock? Paperback    $23.99    $21.59   YES

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The Laws and Customs of the Year of Mourning. For generations, people have wanted a book that sets forth the laws of mourning clearly and accurately, citing relevant sources and the customs of various communities in Israel, America and Europe. The Hebrew "P'nei Baruch" filled that need. Now after painstaking translation, adaptation, and review it is available to the English-speaking public, offering answers to questions that cannot wait, for virtually every conceivable situation. Includes:

• laws of visiting the sick
• laws and customs from the sickbed, through burial, shivah, shloshim, the first year, through yahrzeit
• prayers and Psalms at the cemetery
• exhaustive index of almost any possible eventuality
• source notes
• appendix of prayers
• 45 chapters
• Over 500 pages. By Rabbi Chaim Binyamin Goldberg. Translated by Shlomo Fox-Ashrei. Edited by Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz.

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  Table of Contents

  • Letters of Approbation
  • Preface
  1. Visiting the Sick
  2. Viduy / Confession
  3. Gosess: One the Threshold of Death
  4. Pouring Out the Water
  5. Aninus: The Period Between Death and Interment
  6. Kri'ah (Rending the Garments)
  7. The Kohen's Obligation to Become Tamei for Relatives
  8. Hesped: The Eulogy
  9. Scheduling the Funeral
  10. The Funeral
  11. Funerals on Yom Tov and Chol HaMo'ed
  12. When does Mourning Begin?
  13. The First Day of Mourning
  14. Se'udas Havra'ah: The Mourner's Meal of Condolence
  15. For Whom Does One Mourn?
  16. Laws and Customs in the House of Mourning
  17. Consoling Mourners
  18. The Prohibition Against Work
  19. Bathing and the Use of Lotions
  20. Wearing Shoes, and Marital Relations
  21. Torah-Study and Exchanging Greetings
  22. Atifas HaRosh: Wrapping the Head; Kefias HaMitah: Overturning the Bed; Sitting on a Low Chair
  23. Laundering and Ironing
  24. Cutting Hair or Nails
  25. Joy and Celebration
  26. Leaving the Home During Shivah
  27. Changing One's Place in the Synagogue
  28. Sabbath During Shivah
  29. The Seventh Day of Mourning
  30. If Shivah Was Not Observed
  31. Delayed News of a Death
  32. Shivah and Shloshim Canceled by a Festival
  33. Yom Tov and Chol HaMo'ed
  34. The Festival Cycle and the Mourner
  35. The Bridegroom and Bride
  36. Shloshim: The First Thirty Days of Mourning
  37. Marrying During Shloshim
  38. Yud-Beis Chodesh: The Twelve Months of Mourning
  39. Kaddish During the First Year
  40. Leading the Prayer-Service
  41. The Monument
  42. Visiting the Grave
  43. Memorial Prayers: Yizkor and Kel Malei Rachamim
  44. The Yahrzeit
  45. Reinterment (Likut Atzamos)

• Appendix

• Transliteration of Kaddish

• Index

• Table of Family Records