Moed Katan 27A

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if he can reduce his business, he should reduce it; and if not, he may carry on with them, i.e., his business partners. He may act in partnership with the members of the group with which he is traveling, but he may not engage in business independently.

§ A baraita states the following baraita: From when do the mourners overturn their beds? From when the corpse is taken out of the opening of his house; this is the statement of R' Eliezer. R' Yehoshua says: From when the tomb is sealed with the grave cover.

There was an incident in which the Nasi Rabban Gamliel the Elder died, and once his body left the opening of his house, R' Eliezer said to the members of the household: Overturn your beds. And once the tomb was sealed with the grave cover, R' Yehoshua said to them: Overturn your beds. They then sai

A baraita states: From when do the mourners stand their beds upright on Friday; as the rites of mourning are not observed on Shabbat, and the beds must be returned to their ordinary position beforehand? From minḥa time onward. Rabba bar Huna said: Even so, one may not sit down on his upright bed im

A baraita states: With regard to one who is in mourning and must overturn his bed, he overturns not only his own bed, but rather he overturns all the beds he has in his house. And even if he has 10 beds in 10 different places, he overturns them all. And even if there are 5 brothers and one of them d