Sam Klien – ‘On a separate note anyone could have also watched the funeral live online or listened to it on the kosher phone and saved many wasted hours of traveling that those travel hours could have been used to learn extra as a zchus for his neshama.’
i cited the chiyuv of going to a levaya, the halacha: “mevatlin talmid torah l’halvoyas ha’mes” – we abolish learning Torah to attend a levaya. But you still miss the point. You seem to think that the focus of the levaya is on the living. There fore they can see the levaya remotely, on line etc.
How is watching the levaya on line an act of levayas ha’mes?! Do you think “hashgocha” is the purpose of a levaya 9to supervise_?! Hashgocha can and is done by watching remotely on line, but partcipants in a levaya are not mashgichim.
Next time you are hungry, watch the food on line and let us know if it satisfied your hunger.