Eclesiastés 7:2 Halajá: Shulchan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah & Sefer HaChinukh

ט֞וֹב לָלֶ֣כֶת אֶל־בֵּֽית־אֵ֗בֶל מִלֶּ֙כֶת֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה בַּאֲשֶׁ֕ר ה֖וּא ס֣וֹף כָּל־הָאָדָ֑ם וְהַחַ֖י יִתֵּ֥ן אֶל־לִבּֽוֹ׃

Mejor es ir á la casa del luto que á la casa del convite:  porque aquello es el fin de todos los hombres; y el que vive parará mientes.

Shulchan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah

One who carries bones from place to place should not put them in a sack or saddle-bag and place them across [the back of] an ass and sit on them, because it is a disrespectful way of treating them;33Ber. 18a. Cf. supra § 282, 3. The same would apply to one who transports the bones by any other means of conveyance — A.H. but if he throws it34The sack containing the bones. over his shoulder on the ass,35While he sits on the ass. it is all right.36Asheri. However, if he was afraid of robbers and rovers, it is permitted [to sit on them].37Ber. ibid. Gloss: [R. Meir used to say, it is written, 'It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men] and the living will lay it to heart',38Eccl. VII, 2. [viz.,] matters pertaining to death; if one makes a lamentation, others will make a lamentation for him; if one helps at burial, others will bury him; if one carries [the bier], others will carry him; if one raises [his voice in funereal lamentations], others will raise [their voice] for him.39M.K. 28b a.e. Great is the peace that was given to the righteous, for when a righteous man departs [this world] three companies of ministering Angels extend to him a greeting of peace,40Tur, Asheri and Kol Bo — G. and exclaim, 'He shall enter into peace'.41Is. LVII, 2. entire passage in Ket. 104a. (And everyone that is written unto life shall be called holy).42 Is. IV, 3.
'HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH FOR EVER; AND THE LORD GOD, WILL WIPE AWAY TEARS FROM OFF ALL FACES'.43Is. XXV, 8, cited in last Mishna of M.K. (28b) as a comforting conclusion.
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Sefer HaChinukh

And [also] that which they said (Makkot 8b) that an Israelite is exiled if he killed a slave or a resident alien; and, all the more so, a slave who killed an Israelite or a resident alien, or a slave who killed a slave, or a resident alien [who killed a slave or a resident alien], as it is stated, “and it shall be for the Children of Israel a statute of judgment, and for the stranger that lives among you.” But a resident alien that kills an Israelite — whether volitionally or inadvertently — is killed for it; and a gentile that kills a gentile is not sheltered by the cities of refuge. And [also] that which they said (Makkot 8a), that a son is exiled for the killing of his father and a father is exiled for the killing of his son, and about what are these words speaking — not at the time of learning, but at the time of learning, [if it was] inadvertent as his intention was to teach him and to benefit him with wisdom or with a trade, he is exempt from exile. And so [too,] a teacher with his student likewise. And [also] that which they said (Makkot 10a) that a student that is exiled, his teacher is exiled with him, as it is stated (Deuteronomy 4:42), “he shall flee to one of these cities and live” — and they, may their memory be blessed, expounded (Makkot 10a), [that] they should do for him [what is needed] that he should live, and “wisdom gives life to he who possesses it” (Ecclesiastes 7:12). And the law of whether a husband or master must pay for the sustenance of a wife, a male slave or a maid-servant who has been exiled there; the law of a killer who died before he was exiled, that we bring his bones there; the law of a killer who killed in his city of refuge, and so [too,] a Levite who killed in his city; the law of who is a hater, about whom it is stated that he killed him with enmity, the law of what they said (Makkot 7b) that anyone who kills a soul with a downward motion is exiled, and even an upward motion for the sake of a downward motion, and anyone with an upward motion is not exiled, and even a downward motion for the sake of an upward motion; the law of a killer that the people of the city of refuge want to honor, that he is obligated to say, “I am a killer,” and if they say (to him), “Nonetheless,” it is permissible for him to accept [it]; the law of the altar that it shelters an inadvertent killer like a city of refuge, but only its top and with the altar of the Eternal House, and only a priest with the service in his hand, but not someone else, and they would only allow him there for a short time and afterwards they would give him bodyguards and take him to his city of refuge, and about what are these words speaking, about one of those legally liable for exile, but one who was afraid of the king that he not kill him through a provisional ruling and [so] escaped to the altar and placed [himself on it] is saved, and even if he is [not a priest], and we do not ever take him off of the altar, so did I see that Rambam, may his memory be blessed, wrote. And the rest of its details are elucidated in Tractate Makkot. (See Mishneh Torah, Laws of Murderer and the Preservation of Life 5.)
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