Death and Mourning: Beyond the Law

The Angel "Duma"

Afterlife, Olam HaBa [World to Come], and Yeshivah Shel Maalah [The Heavenly Study-Hall]

Divine Reward and Punishment

Biological information about death

Interaction between the living and the dead

Impurity in cemeteries

A person may not know the day of his death: Pesachim 54b

Gd gives the righteous their full years, to the day: Sotah 13b

One might be killed for the sake of another person's destiny: Taanit 5b

Comparing the womb to the grave: Berachot 15b

Death is the obverse of the giving of the Torah: Megillah 29a; Ketuvot 17a

Death is like the burning of a Torah scroll: Shabbat 105b, Moed Katan 25a

Death as the opposite of Truth and Peace: Succah 32b [See Rashi "Ha'Emet"]

The death of the righteous is like the destruction of the Temple: Rosh HaShanah 18b

The death of a righteous person is a communal loss; the righteous soul still exists, just not within the community: Megillah 15a

The righteous are considered "alive" even in death; the wicked are considered "dead" even while alive: Berachot 18a-b

Gd created the decay of corpses and the power of forgetting the deceased, for our good: Pesachim 54b

Comparison of the potential pain and effort of using the bathroom, and that of death and of the splitting of the Red Sea: Pesachim 118a

Pain of the moment when the soul leaves the body: Moed Katan 28b-29a

Death as a sad prospect, even though one is traveling to the next world: Berachot 18b

It is best to die while involved in a Mitzvah: Shabbat 118b

Praised is one who goes to the next world with his learning at hand: Moed Katan 28a

When one dies, that person is freed from mitzvah obligations: Shabbat 151b

A dead person's knowledge of this world: Berachot 18b; Shabbat 152b; Eruvin 54a

What happens to the Soul after death: Shabbat 152b

Pain of the dead: Berachot 18b, Shabbat 152b, Moed Katan 28a

There will be no more death in the World to Come: Moed Katan 28b

Once the time of a person's death comes, anything can kill him: Nedarim 41a

903 types of death: Berachot 8a

"Askera" death: Berachot 8a, Pesachim 105a

Determining the moment of death: Yoma 85a

Blood entering the heart with one's dying breath: Keritot 22a, and see Rashi there "mishraf sharif"

The physical process of debilitation: Shabbat 151b-153a

Debilitation occurs earlier for one who is a chaser of women: Shabbat 152a

In praise of the value of youth: Shabbat 152a

Determination of Death: Yoma 85a

Closing the eyes of a dying person; permissible and prohibited methods: Shabbat 151b

Methods of preventing decay of a corpse: Berachot 18b, Shabbat 151b

The Angel of Death protects the corpses of those who die with fevers, from being damaged by their own heat: Nedarim 41a-b

Whether the identifying features of a body change [immediately] after Death: Bava Metzia 27b

Whether the dead sense their own decay: Berachot 18b, Shabbat 152a

Whether the bodies of the righteous rot: Shabbat 152b

Whether the soul can leave the grave before the body decays: Berachot 18b

Death with a Divine "kiss": Berachot 8a, Moed Katan 28a

Praying for a painless death: Berachot 8a

Sudden Death is called "Chatufah [Snatched]" [unless he is in his 80's]: Moed Katan 28a

Death after 1 day's illness is "Dechufah [Rushed]" or is from a Plague: Moed Katan 28a

Death after 2 days' illness is "Dechuyah [Delayed]": Moed Katan 28a

Death after 3 days' illness is "Gearah [Rebuke]": Moed Katan 28a

Death after 4 days' illness is "Nezifah [Scolding]": Moed Katan 28a

Death after 5 days' illness is Normal: Moed Katan 28a

The righteous die with intestinal disease, removing the food from their intestines: Shabbat 118b

What people are told after they Die: Chagigah 5b

The soul mourns for 7 days: Shabbat 152a

Death between the ages of 50 and 60, or just death at 50, is that of "Divine Ex-Communication [Kareit]": Moed Katan 28a

Death at the age of sixty is considered to be Divinely ordered: Moed Katan 28a

Even when a person is alive, he is termed "Rimah," "decay": Temurah 31a

Three people are considered at risk of dying, even if they appear healthy - people with intestinal dysfunction, women in labor, and people with Hadroken disease: Eruvin 41b

Rav Yosef, the son of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi: Pesachim 50a

Rav Huna Beraih DeR' Yehoshua: Rosh HaShanah 17a

Using the term "marzeiach מרזח" for a mourner, referring to the mourner's bitter, distracted state, from Yirmiyahu 16:5: Ketuvot 69a-b

Gd forgives the sins of one who mourns for a good person: Shabbat 105b, Moed Katan 25a

One who mourns too much, will soon be mourning another: Moed Katan 27b

During the first three days the mourner should see himself as though there is a sword on his loins, for the next four as though it is opposite him in the corner, and afterwards as though it was passing by in the market: Moed Katan 27b

Gd says to those who mourn for too long, "You are no more merciful than I am!": Moed Katan 27b

Gd counts and saves the tears of one who mourns for a good person: Shabbat 105b

The main bitterness is on the first day: Moed Katan 21a

The rabbis are constantly reminded to mourn for each other, whenever they mention each others' lessons: Moed Katan 24a



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