Commentary for Bava Batra 200:4

המעמד דייני ציפורי אמרו בת ד' קבין כו': ת"ר המוכר קברו דרך קברו מקום מעמדו ובית הספדו באין בני משפחה וקוברין אותו על כרחו משום פגם משפחה:

Our Rabbis taught: No less than seven halts and sittings<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The funeral escort, on returning from a burial, halted on the way at a certain station, where seven times they stood up and sat down on the ground to offer comfort and consolation to the mourners or to weep and lament for the departed. ');">⁹</span> are to be arranged for the dead, corresponding to<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The seven times 'vanity' mentioned in the following verse: Three times 'vanity' in the singular, and twice in the plural which equal four in the singular. ');">¹⁰</span> Vanity of vanities. saith Koheleth; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Eccl. I, 2. ');">¹¹</span>

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