Note 183 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 4)

According to the principle that death equalises all, that “the small and great are there” (Job iii. 19), the greatest simplicity and equality is observed in all matters connected with the obsequies183 of the dead. Friends and relatives follow to the burial-ground; the ‏הלוית המת‎, or attending the dead to their last resting-place,184 is one of those mitsvoth “the fruits of which a man enjoys in this world, while the stock remains for him for the world to come.”