Chapter 200 – Burial on a Festival
200.1) Do not bury your dead on the first day of a festival.
200.2) A non-Jew may bury the dead body on the first day of a festival.
200.3) On the second day of a festival all burial activities may be performed by a non-Jew and a Jew may take care of all but the actual, burying.
200.4) The second day of a festival may be treated like a weekday in regard to burial so as to give the dead the honor they are due.
200.5) If there is no Jewish cemetery in a town, a non-Jew may transport the body to a Jewish cemetery on the first day of a festival and a Jew may do so on the second day.
200.6) You may accompany the dead to the Sabbath-limit on the first day of a festival.
200.7) A Jew may attend to a death if a person dies on the second day of a festival. Ten males should rise early to attend to the procedures.
200.8) Regarding an infant over thirty days old, if it is not an abortive child, the same rules apply as those regarding an adult.
200.9) If an infant dies and it is not known whether or not it was an abortive child, it should not be buried on the first day of festival even by a non-Jew, but should be buried on the second day by a non-Jew only.
200.10) Do not attend to the dead on the Sabbath and Yom Kippur, not even with the help of a non-Jew.
200.11) On Hol Hammoed (intermediate days of Pesach (Passover) and Sukkot (one of Judaism’s three central harvest festivals)), a dead body should not be conveyed to the cemetery before the grave is ready so that it would not be necessary to let the bier remain waiting.