739 | Visiting the Cemetery During the Shivah the synagogue, as emerges already from the Yerushalmi ] Moed Katan b and Semachot chapter 0 : 2, ed . Higger p . 84 [ … 3 82 : 3 Indeed in Semachot 8 : 4 we read : One may go out to the cemetery for thirty days to inspect the dead ] for a sign of life [ , without fear that this smacks of heathen practice ] darkei ha - Emori ) . For it happened that a man was inspected after thirty days, and he went on to live twenty - five years ; still another went on to have five children and died later . 5 See also above chapter 20, “Overturning the beds on the part of the mourner . ” Furthermore, according to B . M . Lewin, Otzar Hilluf Minhagim, Jerusalem pp . 37 - 39, sect . 4, one of the differences between Palestine and . 942 Babylonia was that “the people of Eretz Yisrael only allow the mourner into the synagogue on Shabbat, 6 while the people of Babylonia admit them into He brings further proof of his view ; see also the continuation in sect 2 ibi...
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