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The Embalming of Yaakov

Speaker:: Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
Date:: January 09 2020

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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:

Aveilut

Parsha:

Vayechi

Collections: Yaacov's Funeral

References: Sanhedrin: 47b , Shabbat: 13b , Taanit: 5b

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How could Yosef instruct the Egyptians to embalm Yaakov - doesn't that violate halachah regarding burial, cheat the benefits of decay as described in the gemara, and cause pain according to one view in the gemara? (And wasn't Yaakov alive?) Multiple approaches to the problem.

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