Burial and Escorting the Body

Autopsy

The duty for a husband to bury his wife

Reward for involvement with Burying the Dead

Burial of an ex-communicated person

Impurity of a Grave

The Shrouds

Entities which must be buried

Burial on Yom Tov

Burial on the second day of Yom Tov

Burial on the second day of Rosh HaShanah

Uncovering/Covering the face of the corpse: Moed Katan 27a

The type of bed on which the body is placed: Moed Katan 27a-b

Use of a perfume for deceased people who had intestinal failure: Moed Katan 27b

Using the special oil of anointing for a dead body: Keritot 6b

Immersing the clothing of a deceased person who had impurity from genital discharge or from Menstruation: Moed Katan 27b

Putting Tzitzit-Fringes on the body: Menachos 41a

Guarding the body before burial: Berachot 18a

Transporting the body in a respectful manner: Berachot 18a

Source for the Mitzvah of burial: Bava Metzia 30b

Tying burial responsibility into physical proximity to the deceased: Berachot 17b-18a

Gd involves Himself with the burial of the righteous: Sotah 9b, 14a

Gd buries the dead; so should we: Sotah 14a

Having people who are not Jewish help with the burial: Beitzah 6a

We try to speed burial, except where delaying will honor the deceased if it is a parent; we rush all burials on the Eve of Shabbat or Holidays, or if it is raining: Moed Katan 22a

Leaving the casket in the road for a while, to induce people to come and mourn: Moed Katan 27a

The above practice, for deceased women: Moed Katan 27a, 27b-28a

Burial of an infant who dies before reaching 30 days of age: Moed Katan 24a-b

Burial of an infant who dies between 30 days and 12 months old: Moed Katan 24b

Burial of an infant who looks older than 12 months, or is older and doesn't appear to be: Moed Katan 24b

One who buries others will be buried by others: Moed Katan 28b

One should be modestly secretive about his involvement in the Mitzvah: Succah 49b

The importance of burying someone who has nobody else to bury him: Succah 25b

Burial of a person who has been ex-communicated: Berachot 19a; Moed Katan 15a

The phenomenon of funeral-gogglers who come out of curiosity: Berachot 19b [see Rashi "machmat atzman"]

One may not instruct that his property should not be used for his own burial; one may not put the responsibility on the community: Ketuvot 48a

If one buries others, then others will bury them when it is their time: Ketuvot 71b-72a

Terming the cemetery "Chatzar Mavet": Berachot 18b (2x)

Lightheadedness in a cemetery: Megillah 29a

Herding animals: Megillah 29a

Redirecting a body of water through it: Megillah 29a

Gathering grasses: Megillah 29a

Sleeping in a cemetery, and Evil Spirits: Niddah 17a

The military's right to bury wherever a body dies, regardless of ownership of the property: Eruvin 17a

How to ensure that a grave will not become a spot for wild animals to rest: Eruvin 43b

Wearing Phylacteries in a cemetery: Berachot 18a

Carrying a Torah scroll in a cemetery: Berachot 18a

Studying Torah in a cemetery, from a scroll: Berachot 18a

Studying Torah in a cemetery, without a scroll: Tosafot Berachot 18a "v'sefer"

Making sure one's conduct in a cemetery does not mock the deceased, betraying a lack of sensitivity for the dignity of Gd's creatures: Berachot 18a-19a

Speaking poorly of the dead in a cemetery - and whether the deceased care: Berachot 19a

Using an animal as the "Golal," one of the stones bordering/covering the grave: Eruvin 15a-b, 15b; Succah 23a, 24a

Working, while there is a body in the city, if there isn't any established group of buriers: Moed Katan 27b

For a Torah Scholar: Megillah 29a; Ketuvot 17a-b

Vs. Honor of a Jewish King: Ketuvot 17a

Vs. Aiding a Bride to Marry: Ketuvot 17a

Vs. Learning Torah: Megillah 29a; Ketuvot 17a-b

Failing to participate in a funeral procession: Berachot 18a

Honoring the deceased is like honoring Gd; taking care of the deceased is like 'taking care of' Gd: Berachot 18a

If one escorts others to burial, then others will escort them when it is their time: Ketuvot 71b-72a

A Proper Entourage: Megillah 29a; Ketuvot 17a-b (See Rashi Top of 17b)

In order to have the set of haltings of the body, a Quorum is required: Megillah 23b

The call, "Stand, dear ones" or "Sit, dear ones" for the haltings and marchings: Megillah 23b

In order to have the line of consolers, a Quorum is required: Megillah 23b

One who carries a body will be carried: Moed Katan 28b

Speaking [the deceased's] words of Torah before him: Berachot 3b, Tos. Berachot 3b #2, Tos. Bava Kama 16b #9

Speaking about the deceased before the deceased: Berachot 3b, Tos. Berachot 3b #2

Special behavior for escorting a Torah Scholar: Moed Katan 25a, Bava Kama 17a

Value of escorting the corpse of a Torah Scholar: Megillah 29a; Chagigah 5b

Reponsibility of the attendees for reciting Shema and the the Amidah [and see Rashi "Ve'Aylu Ve'Aylu"], and wearing Phylacteries: Berachot 17b, 19a-b

Forming the line of consolers where the body's spine is [not] intact: Moed Katan

Having the line of consolers on the Intermediate Day of Holidays: Moed Katan 27a

Escorting the body with due modesty: Makkot 24a

Escorting a mourner even into an area of rabbinic impurity on the way home, to show him honor: Berachot 19b

Use of human flesh, after it decomposes: Temurah 34a



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