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This is a long source sheet for a Talmud class I teach at our shul. We've been studying Pesachim chapter 10 and I started using Sefaria for this class during the pandemic and at that point we were on page 108a.
Here are some of the sources that are the basis for the work of the Hevra Kadisha, the Holy Society in charge of preparing the deceased for burial. This mitzvah is not easy to perform but deeply meaningful.
Root Souls is a key idea of the Meor Eynaiyim. A brief text introducing this idea, learned from his teacher the Maggid of Mezrich. Other 3rd generation rebbes cite this as an important teaching, however the Meor Eynaiyim makes it central to his Torah