Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Siman 200

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Which deceased does the Kitzur leave without the usual mourning, and which not? The Kitzur withholds mourning from one who willingly takes his life, but a minor, an adult seized by insanity, or one under extreme duress like King Shaul is mourned like anyone. Those who cast off the mitzvos are not mourned, unless they were killed by human hands, a death the Kitzur counts as atonement. The Kitzur then turns to a Kohen and tumas meis, from a fetus after forty days to a goises.

Key points

• Without conclusive evidence, the Kitzur attributes no death by strangling or hanging to suicide.
• A minor, one seized by insanity, or one under extreme duress like King Shaul is mourned normally, per the Kitzur.
• The Kitzur forbids a Kohen to enter a house with a goises, though a goises imparts no tumah.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Burial on Shabbos and Yom Tov
2. 2:12One who takes his own life
3. 5:38Minor, insanity and duress
4. 6:54Those who left the community
5. 8:26One killed by human hands
6. 10:09A Kohen and tumas meis
7. 10:56Tumah of a fetus and forty days
8. 13:37A Kohen and a goises

Topics

• Aveilus
• Tumas Meis
• Kohanim