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specifically by the passing of Rabbi Nissim Revivo zt”l and Rabbi Rafael
Bordugo zt”l.
“His forty-day term was completed, for such is
the term of the embalmed; and Egypt bewailed
him for seventy days”
(Bereishit 50:3)
“So Yosef went up to bury his father, and with
him went up all of Pharaoh’s servants, the
elders of his household, and all the elders of the
land of Egypt”
(ibid. 50:7)
“When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land
saw the mourning in Goren HaAtad, they said,
‘This is a grievous mourning for Egypt.’
Therefore, it was named Avel Mitzrayim, which
is across the Jordan”
(ibid. 50:11)
