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*[[Tearing Keriya]] ([[Rending one's Garments in Mourning]])
*[[Tearing Keriya]] ([[Rending one's Garments in Mourning]])
*[[Onen]] ([[First Day of Mourning]])
*[[Onen]] ([[First Day of Mourning]])
*[[Hesped]] ([[Delivering a Eulogy]])
*[[Levaya]] ([[Escorting the Deceased]])
*[[Kevura]] ([[Burial]])
*[[Seudat Havrah]] ([[First Meal of a Mourner]])
*[[Shiva]] ([[First Week of Mourning]])
*[[Shiva]] ([[First Week of Mourning]])
*[[Shloshim]] ([[First Month of Mourning]])
*[[Shloshim]] ([[First Month of Mourning]])
*[[12 Months]] ([[Extended Mourning For a Parent]])
*[[Twelve Months]] ([[Extended Mourning For a Parent]])
*[[Yahrzeit]] ([[Yearly Commemoration For a Parent]])
*[[Yahrzeit]] ([[Yearly Commemoration For a Parent]])
*[[Nichum Aveilim]] ([[Comforting the Mourners]])
*[[Practices in the Mourner's House]]
*[[Yom Tov Canceling Aveilut]]
*[[Aveilut on Yom Tov]]
*[[Aveilut on Shabbat]]
*[[A Delayed Hearing of a Relative's Passing]]
*[[Mourning and Fasting on Chanukah and Purim]]
*[[Visiting a Cemetery]]


==Specific mitzvot==
==The Mitzvah to Mourn==
*[[Mourning and Fasting on Chanuka]]
# There is a major dispute if aveilut is deoritta or derabbanan. The consensus is that it is derabbanan. <ref>The geonim hold that the first day is deoritta, while the Tosfot hold that aveilut is completely derabbanan. Shulchan Aruch 398:1 holds that it is deoritta but the minhag cited in Shulchan Aruch 399:13 holds that it is derabbanan. Shach 398:2 writes that we hold it is derabbanan.</ref>
# An important aspect of mourning is doing teshuva. Anyone who doesn't mourner like chazal instructed is considered cruel.<ref>Rambam (Avel 13:12), Shulchan Aruch 394:6. See Birkei Yosef 395 who writes that it is inappropriate if a person doesn't cry even one tear during the first three days after the death of a relative unless he is holding back from crying because of marit ayin.</ref>
# It is improper to mourn a deceased one more than chazal instructed. However, for a talmid chacham it is permitted but still it is only permitted to cry over the death until 30 days and give eulogies until 12 months. <ref>Shulchan Aruch 394:1-2</ref>
===Beginning of Aveilut===
# A person would have to mourn based on a source from one witness, even if it is secondhand, or even a non-Jew if he is speaking casually.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 397:1</ref>
 
==Sources==
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Latest revision as of 14:52, 7 June 2020

The Mitzvah to Mourn

  1. There is a major dispute if aveilut is deoritta or derabbanan. The consensus is that it is derabbanan. [1]
  2. An important aspect of mourning is doing teshuva. Anyone who doesn't mourner like chazal instructed is considered cruel.[2]
  3. It is improper to mourn a deceased one more than chazal instructed. However, for a talmid chacham it is permitted but still it is only permitted to cry over the death until 30 days and give eulogies until 12 months. [3]

Beginning of Aveilut

  1. A person would have to mourn based on a source from one witness, even if it is secondhand, or even a non-Jew if he is speaking casually.[4]

Sources

  1. ↑ The geonim hold that the first day is deoritta, while the Tosfot hold that aveilut is completely derabbanan. Shulchan Aruch 398:1 holds that it is deoritta but the minhag cited in Shulchan Aruch 399:13 holds that it is derabbanan. Shach 398:2 writes that we hold it is derabbanan.
  2. ↑ Rambam (Avel 13:12), Shulchan Aruch 394:6. See Birkei Yosef 395 who writes that it is inappropriate if a person doesn't cry even one tear during the first three days after the death of a relative unless he is holding back from crying because of marit ayin.
  3. ↑ Shulchan Aruch 394:1-2
  4. ↑ Shulchan Aruch YD 397:1
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