Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Yoreh Deah/345

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Shulchan Aruch
by Yosef Karo, translated from Hebrew by Wikisource
Yoreh Deah 345
190695Shulchan Aruch — Yoreh Deah 345Yosef Karo

Seif 1: Someone who commits suicide, we do not deal with him [i.e. his mourning] for any purpose. We do not mourn for him, or eulogize for him, or tear our clothing for him, or remove shoes for him. We only stand for him on a line and say the blessing of mourners for him, and any other thing that is respectful for the living.

Seif 2: Who is a considered a suicide? Someone such as a person who said: “I [lit. “he”] is going up to the roof,”, and they saw him go up while angry or he was in distress, and he fell and died, he is considered a suicide. But if he was strangled and hanging in a tree, or dead and found on his sword, he is considered like any other dead person and we may deal with him and do not take anything away from him. HAGAH – One who stole and was killed for this by law of the land, we may mourn for him if there is no danger from fear of the government, and this person is not called a suicide.