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==Mourning and Fasting on Chanuka== | ==Mourning and Fasting on Chanuka== | ||
# If a relative passes away on Chanuka one must keep all the practices of Avelut, including ripping one’s clothing for the dead and comforting the mourner. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 670:12 writes that all agree that there is Aveilut on Chanuka. Yalkut Yosef (Moadim 192) agrees. </ref> | # If a relative passes away on Chanuka one must keep all the practices of Avelut, including ripping one’s clothing for the dead and comforting the mourner. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 670:12 writes that all agree that there is Aveilut on Chanuka. Yalkut Yosef (Moadim 192) agrees. </ref> | ||
# One should conduct a eulogy during Chanuka because Chanuka is a time of Simcha and Hallel except for a Chacham on the day of death. <Ref> [[Shabbat]] 21b says that it’s forbidden to eulogize on Chanuka. However Megilah 3b and moed Katan 26b says for a Chacham it’s permitted on Moed and all the more so for Chanuka. S”A 670:3 rules this that it’s forbidden except for a Chacham. Mahariv, Magan Avraham (C”M 547) and Chaye Aam says nowadays we don’t have a Chacham. However the Maharamit, Birkei Yosef (C”M 15:2), Orach Mishpat 4:17 in name of Maharshal (Bava Kama 2), Nezirut Shimshon, Aruch HaShulchan, Shaar Shlomo Zorafa 135, and Sh”t Yabea Omer Y”D 9:46 allow it even nowadays.</ref> A teacher of Torah who set times to learn is considered a Chacham to eulogize on Chanuka during the Levayah. <Ref> Sh”t Shaar Shlomo Zorafa 135 and Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 670:6). </ref> | # One should not conduct a eulogy during Chanuka because Chanuka is a time of Simcha and Hallel except for a Chacham on the day of death. <Ref> [[Shabbat]] 21b says that it’s forbidden to eulogize on Chanuka. However Megilah 3b and moed Katan 26b says for a Chacham it’s permitted on Moed and all the more so for Chanuka. S”A 670:3 rules this that it’s forbidden except for a Chacham. Mahariv, Magan Avraham (C”M 547) and Chaye Aam says nowadays we don’t have a Chacham. However the Maharamit, Birkei Yosef (C”M 15:2), Orach Mishpat 4:17 in name of Maharshal (Bava Kama 2), Nezirut Shimshon, Aruch HaShulchan, Shaar Shlomo Zorafa 135, and Sh”t Yabea Omer Y”D 9:46 allow it even nowadays.</ref> A teacher of Torah who set times to learn is considered a Chacham to eulogize on Chanuka during the Levayah. <Ref> Sh”t Shaar Shlomo Zorafa 135 and Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 670:6). </ref> | ||
# One is not allowed to fast on Chanuka, and so if one’s parent’s Yehrzheit falls out on Chanuka (according to those who fast for one’s parent’s yehrzeit) one should fast one of the days prior to Chanuka. <Ref> S”A 670:1 based on [[Shabbat]] 21b says it’s forbidden to fast on Chanuka. </ref> | # One is not allowed to fast on Chanuka, and so if one’s parent’s Yehrzheit falls out on Chanuka (according to those who fast for one’s parent’s yehrzeit) one should fast one of the days prior to Chanuka. <Ref> S”A 670:1 based on [[Shabbat]] 21b says it’s forbidden to fast on Chanuka. </ref> | ||
# One is allowed to fast or do a eulogy the day before or after Chanuka. Some say that one should be strict not to fast the day before Chanuka Lechatchila. <Ref> S”A 686:1 based on Tosfot (Tanit 18) and Rosh (Megilah Perek Kama). However, Mishna Brurah 686:1 brings Bach and Pri Chadash that say one isn’t allowed to fast the day before Chanuka. Mishna Brurah 686:1 says that since it’s permitted to fast the day before and after Chanuka (S”A 686:1) one is allowed to do a eulogy because a eulogy is more lenient than a fast (Shaar Tzion 686:1). See further, Sh”t Har HaKarmel O”C 10, and Sh”t Divrei Moshe 1:37 </ref> | # One is allowed to fast or do a eulogy the day before or after Chanuka. Some say that one should be strict not to fast the day before Chanuka Lechatchila. <Ref> S”A 686:1 based on Tosfot (Tanit 18) and Rosh (Megilah Perek Kama). However, Mishna Brurah 686:1 brings Bach and Pri Chadash that say one isn’t allowed to fast the day before Chanuka. Mishna Brurah 686:1 says that since it’s permitted to fast the day before and after Chanuka (S”A 686:1) one is allowed to do a eulogy because a eulogy is more lenient than a fast (Shaar Tzion 686:1). See further, Sh”t Har HaKarmel O”C 10, and Sh”t Divrei Moshe 1:37 </ref> | ||
