The Mishnah on Reciting the Blessing for Mourners
We do not perform [the mourning rite of] standing and sitting [seven times on the way home from accompanying a corpse to the grave], or recite the blessing for mourners, or [perform the rite of] comfort[ing] the mourners [after the burial], or recite the blessing for bridegrooms, or invite [others to recite the blessing after meals] using the name of God—with fewer than ten [men present].
Translated by Richard S. Sarason.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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