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Are we able to benefit in any way from accessories, like a shroud, related to a dead person?
The rabbis consider a number of items including cloth, a monument, something hewed, a pouch, and a craftsman. When are times forbidden by designation, and when by action? For example, a cloth that was laid down upon by a person who is ritually impure - if that scant is designated as a Torah cover, is it affected by this new status simply by designation or by the action of wrapping the Torah?
All of this is discussed in the context of who might be buried in which places - further or closer from righteous people, mausoleums, etc.
We explore ancient burial practices and the notion of burial goods.