Questions tagged [mourning-aveilus]
A halachic period of mourning after the passing of a close relative. There are many laws and customs relating to this period and those observing it.
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Wearing a new watch in the nine days
What do the sources have to say about wearing a new watch in the nine days?
Is it considered like significant new clothes and therefore not
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Why has it become common to say a drasha in a mourner's home?
If I understand the top of Mo'ed Kattan 23a correctly, it says that one should not say aggadah in a mourner's home. (The phrasing immediately after says that they did this after Rav Chananiah ben ...
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Can an Avel read from the Torah?
While someone is sitting shiva, are they allowed to be a ba'al koreh and read from the Torah, or is that considered simcha?
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For how long is Kaddish recited following the passing of a parent (for Sephardim/Mizrahim)?
According to AskMoses, The prevalent Sephardic custom, based on the teachings of the holy Arizal, is to recite the kaddish for 12 months minus one week. Just wondering where this is brought down? Can'...
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Extended Kaddish for a Non-Shomer Shabbos Jew
This website says that if one is saying Kaddish for someone who was not shomer Shabbos, one should continue to say Kaddish for 12 months instead of 11. What is the source for this practice?
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'Aninut when the body can't be released
If someone dies and their body cannot be released for burial for an extended length of time, how are aninut* and aveilut approached?
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Listening to music during year of aveilut
Is one allowed to listen to music during aveilut after the shloshim for therapeutic porpuses?
Is there any difference between the way ashkenazim and sephardim hold?
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why do we mourn the 24k students of Rabbi Akivah?
until lag b'omer we mourn the 24k students of Rabbi Akiva who were wiped out in a plague (Yevamot 62b). Why do we mourn this and not many other tragic events in our history (ex.pinchas affair, korach, ...
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Place of "laws of mourning" in the rambam
Maimonides' Book of Judges contains the following sections: laws of the Sanhedrin and the punishments they enforce, laws of witnesses, laws of rebels, laws of mourning, and laws of kings and their ...
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listening to a cappela during sefira?
A friend of mine told me that there is a problem with listening to a cappela during sefira. A few people mentioned a few places where it talks about it but I don't remember the places. What is the ...
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Is one allowed to listen to music for therapeutic purposes during sefira and the three weeks?
It has been scientifically proven that listening to music helps increase people's dopamine (happiness neurotransmitters) levels by as much as 9%, and as such there is such a thing as music therapy.
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How are albums such as AKAPella considered a capella?
AKAPella is an a cappella group that performs parodies on other artists' songs, often non-Jewish ones as of late, in a cappella for people to enjoy during sefira and the three weeks.
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are you allowed get music lessons during sefirah?
are you allowed to start getting music lessons which he has not had beforehand during sefirah?
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Parent/child relationship : how does adoption compare to geirus?
Take a father and daughter who both underwent geirus. Now take a Jewish man who adopted a baby girl of unknown (Jewish) parents. In both situations, the father raises the child since birth. Are the ...
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Covering pictures in the house of a mourner
There is a minhag I have heard of where in addition to covering all of the mirrors in the mourner's house they would also cover all pictures of the deceased. I have long tried to find a source for ...
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no shiva after finding out after sheloshim?
I interpret the shiva as also being a time for the mourner to psychologically process the loss of the deceased.
If a mourner only learns about the deceased's passing more than 30 days after the death,...
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Did Jacob's sons do aveilut before Jacob was buried?
In viewing Breishit 50:10 it says that the group came to Goren Ha'atad and they made a seven-day mourning period for their father there.
Only afterwards, does it state that they buried Jacob in the ...
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Covering the mirrors in the house of a mourner
When learning the laws of mourning in the Gemara and rishonim I don't recall the requirement to cover up the mirrors in the house of a mourner. But it does seem like a quite prevelalant practice. ...
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For how long was it customary to wear widow's garb and did Tomor follow the custom?
Tomor became a widow while Sheloh was still young Beraishis 38 (11) . Many days passed 38 (12). Tomor took off her widow's garb 38 (14) at the time that Sheloh had grown up and later put it on again ...
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Priority for multiple "chiyuvim" to be Shaliach Tzibbur
What is the priority for the following situations regarding who is Shaliach Tzibbur during a weekday (I'm excluding the possibility of various customs that exclude such people from leading services on ...
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Changes in Hilchos Aveilus due to the reaction of gentiles
I just read an article by Rabbi Yair Hoffman regarding images of woman.
In the article he mentions that we have in the past changed our Minhagim in Hilchos Aveilus in concern of reaction of gentiles.
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Why does Yom Tov end, rather than suspend, sh'loshim?
If Yom Tov falls during the 30-day period of mourning (sh'loshim), the sh'loshim is terminated. This morning when the minyan got to the mourners' kaddish I noticed the pained expression on the face ...
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Is shiva suspended during weekday davening?
This is a hypothetical designed to investigate a subtlety of practice and understanding, not elicit a halachic ruling.
I will be attending a morning shiva minyan on Monday. The mourner is a kohen and ...
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What does one say to an Onen?
After a death but before the burial, some relatives have the status of Onen.
While there is a sentence we say to a mourner afterwards, Hamakom, is there any specific thing one should say to someone ...
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Can one buy or rent a vacation home during the 12 months of mourning?
This source says:
During the twelve months (of mourning for a parent), it is forbidden to:
purchase or rent a home, unless a significant loss would otherwise be
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Was it customary for there to be an annual lamentation for someone's death, e.g. the daughter of Jephthah? Details as to her mourning process?
In Judges 11, the overzealous (or prideful) short-reigned judge of Israel, Jephthah, makes the rash vow to G-d that if he is victorious against the Ammorites and safely returns home, then he will ...
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Why does the shiva expression begn with term המקום? [duplicate]
Prior to leaving the shiva house, visitors say to the mourners:
המקום ינחם אתכם...
Meaning (literally) "The place should comfort you..."
WHat is the meaning of referring to God as "the place" ...
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Is one allowed to change the torn shirt during shiva?
When I have visited someone during the shiva week, I notice that they wear a torn shirt. I know that the shirt is usually torn at the funeral home or cemetery prior to burial. I assume that the ...
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The historical significance of Rosh Chodesh Av
According to the mishna in Ta'anit (26a-b), 5 things happened on the 17th of Tammuz and 5 on Tish'a B'av. The last was that Jerusalem was plowed under:
"ונחרשה העיר משנכנס אב ממעטין בשמחה "
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Throwing dust on head = common mourning ritual?
In Job 2:12, when Job's friends first see Job at a distance, they "did not recognize him, and they raised their voices, and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads....
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Harchakot while grieving, ch"v
If, G-d forbid, a wife learned of a terrible tragedy while a niddah, is there any possibility that her husband could hug her?
To be clear, I am asking for respected sources that look at this matter ...
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What to say to someone on a yahrzeit
Is there a standard expression used to greet or comfort those who are celebrating an anniversary of mourning? (...and why is it said?)
Even if not, what should one say? (...and why?)
We should merit ...
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Eating in restaurants during Aveilus
Recently a friend told me that it is not proper to eat out in restaurants when one is an Aveil. I have been searching for a source that prohibits this. Does anyone know of a source prohibiting eating ...
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Minhagim of Sefirah
Most people keep only part of Sefirah (the seven-week period joining Pesach and Shavuos) as a period of semimourning: either (roughly) the first 33 days or (roughly) the last 33 days. There are ...
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If visiting the kosel before a joyous event, does one tear kriyah?
If visiting the kosel the morning of, say, one's wedding, should one tear kriyah? I am asking whether we should be in mourning for the temple even at a very joyous time. (My guess is yes, partly based ...
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Should one refrain from fun activities during sefirah?
During sefirah there is a custom to mourn the dying of R Akiva's disciples.
Is the mourning restricted to the well known restrictions of not shaving and listening to music - or should one refrain ...
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Source for "Hamakom" said at shiva and variations
What is the source for the text of hamakom?
In Israel I noticed that they add some words that I never heard in the States (something like"vlo yosifo lidavek?od") , what is the source for them and why ...
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"Hamakom" after shiv'a
In my experience, for the most part, "המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים" is said to a mourner specifically during shiv'a. However, I've heard some people say it after shiv'a, particularly ...
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Brit milah during shloshim
I understand that someone observing shloshim should not attend a seudat mitzvah. I was wondering what happens if someone observing shloshim has a baby boy who is due for a bris.
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Proper day and time for a Shloshim Seuda
Per Chabad.org: "Traditionally, families gather on the eve of the Shloshim to share support, recite prayers and Psalms, and to give charity in the merit of the deceased. Many will also make a Siyum, ...
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"Chiyuv" to be chazan vs. congregational approval and refusal
Follow-up to this M.Y. answer about a "chiyuv" to daven from the amud.
The answer states that a mourner for a parent should try to be shaliach tzibbur.
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What does it mean for a mourner to "have a chiuv"?
I have noticed that in many synagogues, before davening, the gabbai customarily asks if anybody "has a chiuv". If there is anybody with a chiuv, he is asked to daven from the amud. The people who ...
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Mourner that misses Kaddish
A mourner who is having an operation, or travelling, or any other reason that makes it impossible for him to say Kaddish at a particular Tefila. Is there anything the mourner should do to make up for ...
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Does a mourner tear one garment, or every garment he wears for a period of time?
I belong to a liberal community and what I have seen, when somebody is in mourning for a parent, is that they wear a "kriah ribbon" instead of tearing an actual garment, and they wear it at least ...
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Aveil participating in a Simcha
May an Aveil attend a wedding of a sibling or neighbor? May he eat there? How about a Sheva Brachos? Bar Mitzva? Bris? Is there a difference in the Sheloshim and the remainder of the year?
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Is Selichos recited in the house of a mourner during shiva on Asara B'Tevet?
Is Selichot said in the house of an avel during shiva on the 10th of Tevet? Does the mourner lead the Selichos?
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Does the congregation recite certain sections of the prayers if a mourner is in the synagogue?
This morning, a mourner (in Shiva period) appeared in my shul.
Art Scroll Ashkenaz siddur, among others, most likely, indicate that in a house of mourning, Tachanun is omitted and in Uva Letziyon, ...
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Practical Halachas after death of a close relative
what are the practical halachos one must follow after hearing of the death of a relative one is supposed to sit shiva for? (until the burial)
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Rebbe wearing new garments during shloshim
I recently heard from a couple of Bnei Brak Wizniter chassidim that their rebbes (R' Yisroel and R' Mendel) wore new clothing for Pesach 5772, less than a month after their father passed away.
How ...
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Does Yom Tov end the "Shloshim" period?
I know that if people are sitting shiva, and a Yom Tov occurs in the middle of the shiva period, shiva immediately ends.
Does this same "quick end" rule apply to the shloshim (30 day mourning period) ...
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