Commentary for Berakhot 35:6
מתו ומשמרו אין אבל מהלך בבית הקברות לא והתניא לא יהלך אדם בבית הקברות ותפילין בראשו וספר תורה בזרועו וקורא ואם עושה כן עובר משום (משלי יז, ה) לועג לרש חרף עושהו
If it be his dead or if he watches it, he is exempt ; but [so it may be inferred] one who walks in a cemetery is not ! But lo, there is a teaching : A man must not walk in a cemetery with his Tefillin on his head or holding a scroll of the Torah and reading therein ; should he do so, he commits a transgression because of the injunction : "Whoso mocketh the poor blasphemeth his Maker" (Prov. xvii. 5) !
Tosafot on Berakhot
WITH PHYLACTERIES ON HIS HEAD AND A TORAH SCROLL IN HIS ARM AND READ [FROM IT]. The Braiso says that one may not walk in a cemetery while carrying a sefer Torah and reading from it. Since the reason for this prohibition is because it seems as if we are ridiculing the deceased who can no longer fulfill mitzvos, Tosfos points out that the Braiso is not to be taken literally
And the same ruling applies, that it is prohibited to recite Torah by heart.
And the same ruling applies, that it is prohibited to recite Torah by heart.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
There is none so poor as the dead. Cf. fol. 3 b, p. 10 n. 4.
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