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Entry of a Pregnant Woman into a Cemetery

Question

Can a pregnant woman enter a cemetery?

Answer

Hello and Happy Hanukkah

There is no source for a prohibition. However, it is customary that she does not touch the graves.

Answered 11 December 2023 How answers are reviewed
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Rabbi Israel Cohen
Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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Source

See Minchat Yitzchak, Volume 10, Siman 42, where he tried to find reasons for the 'custom of elderly women'. 

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