Tearing Keriya: Difference between revisions

#One who is [[mourning]] any relative other than a parent should tear one's outer garment such as one's shirt, but not an outer garment which one only wears sometimes, such as a coat or jacket. <ref>Shulchan Aruch rules that one doesn't have to tear kriyah on an outer garment. The Taz 340:5 explains that this outer garment is something only worn for modesty in a shul or outdoors but not in a private house. The Nekudat Hakesef argues that the outer garment is only exempt if it is something worn for modesty just in shul, but if it is a garment always worn in the street, even if it isn't worn at home, it is still obligated in kriyah. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:3 rules like the Shach and writes that one who is [[mourning]] a relative other than a parent doesn't rip one's outer garment which one sometimes goes in the street with and sometimes not. Rav Mordechai Eliyahu's comment on Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:4 writes that such a mourner should rip his shirt and not his coat. [http://www.yutorah.org/sidebar/lecture.cfm/880233/rabbi-mordechai-i-willig/aveilut-shiur-20-keriya-on-the-seventh-day-after-changing-hilchot-keriya-tefillin-first-day/ Rabbi Mordechai Willig (Aveilut Shiur 20)] explained that since people don't always wears a jacket inside or even in the street, it is considered an outer garment that doesn't need to be ripped. </ref>

#If one only tore some of the garments which one was obligated to tear, one has not fulfilled his obligation. <ref>Kitzur S”A 195:3</ref>