Halakhah for Sanhedrin 37:10

ת"ר בראשונה היו אבלים עומדין וכל העם עוברין והיו ב' משפחות בירושלים מתגרות זו בזו זאת אומרת אני עוברת תחלה וזאת אומרת אני עוברת תחלה התקינו שיהא העם עומדין ואבלים עוברין:

Rammi bar Abba said: R. Jose restored the earlier custom in Sepphoris,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] (lit. 'bird'). Important city in Galilee, at one time its capital. Frequently identified in the Talmud (Meg. 6a) with Kitron (Judges I, 30). R. Jose was born in Sepphoris and knew it well. [V. Klein, S. [H] rt. [H], 54ff.] ');">¹⁶</span> that the mourners should stand still and the public pass by. He also said: R. Jose enacted in the same town that a woman should not walk in the street followed by her child,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But that she should follow the child. ');">¹⁷</span>

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