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Burying an observant Jew

The Rav Name: Rabbi Boaz Yurkowitz

How is it that observant Jews get buried next to non-observant Jews? Isn’t it forbidden to bury the righteous next to the wicked?

It is in fact problematic to bury a righteous person next to a wicked one. When a Jew is non-observant, he can fall under the category of ‘tinok shenishbah’, (baby in captivity), (due to lack of positive exposure to the tenets of Judaism), and then he is no longer in the category of ‘wicked’.

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