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*[[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]])
*[[Nichum Aveilim]] ([[Comforting the Mourners]])
==Specific mitzvot==
*[[Mourning and Fasting on Chanuka]]
*[[Mourning and Fasting on Chanuka]]


==General Halachot about Mourning==
# 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>
==Sources==
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Revision as of 21:48, 7 July 2017

General Halachot about Mourning

  1. An important aspect of mourning is doing teshuva. Anyone who doesn't mourner like chazal instructed is considered cruel.[1]
  2. 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. [2]

Sources

  1. 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.
  2. Shulchan Aruch 394:1-2