#4867 A matter of Life and death I

We should answer for the above Shaila. first three different questions.

1) It is forbidden to derive benefit from a dead body.

Most poskim assume that this is a biblical prohibition. (Tosafos and Rashba Babba Kama 10a, Ramban Vayikra 11:3, Rashba Teshuvos 1:364, and Lechem Mishna 14:21)

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However, the Mishna Lemelech Avel 14:21 (1) suggests that perhaps the Rambam Maachalot Asurot 2:3 holds it is only a rabbinic prohibition.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.