Part Two – Death | 686 BTMenahot 4 a, where we are told that when one dresses the corpse “one certainly places upon ] the shroud tzitzit [ , because ] otherwise it would be like [ mocking the impoverished” ( i . e . as though mockingly you were saying : You are no longer subject to mitzvot ) . And Rosh ( Rabbenu Asher ) to Moed Katan chapter 3 sect . 80, quotes Rabbenu Yehudah of Paris as arguing that one must bury the dead with tzitzit, since in the future, at the time of the resurrection of the dead, all the mitzvot will continue to be in force, it would shame the dead were he to rise up without being dressed with tzitzit . Similarly, it would appear from BTBaba Batra 74 a that the dead wore tzitzit . However, Tosafot ad loc . rejects this evidence, arguing that the Children of Israel who died in the wilderness would enter into their graves whilst they were still alive, bringing aggadic sources to bear out this suggestion . Indeed, this is the view of the Tosafists in a number of sou...
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