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Rabbi Meir also stated another leniency concerning the halakhot of the intermediate days of a Festival:
A person may gather the bones of his father and mother from their temporary graves on the intermediate days of a Festival. In ancient times, it was customary to first bury a corpse in a temporary grave. After the flesh had decomposed, the bones would be collected, placed in a coffin, and buried in a vault together with the bones of the deceased individual’s ancestors.
This is permitted on the intermediate days of a Festival because the fact that one merited to bring the bones of his deceased parents to the graves of their ancestors is a source of joy for him.
The Yerushalmi, however, sees the joy of the occasion in seeing that the flesh has decomposed, which indicates that the person’s sins have been forgiven.
We explore the halochos of digging graves and eulogies on cool hammed…then we review the midrashic sources regarding the search for Yosef’s bones (the Nile or in a Royal Tomb) then make use of archetypal psychology (C G Jung) to expose the inner dimensions of the paradox of Joseph’s bones being laid in the aron alongside the aron of the brit.