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==Greeting Others== | ==Greeting Others== | ||
# Many poskim hold that it is permitted to greet someone other than the mourners in the house of an avel. <Ref>Chazon Ovadia Aveilut v. 3 p. 28, Tzitz Eliezer (Ramat Rachel 5:51). See however Aruch Hashulchan 385 who is strict.</ref> | # Many poskim hold that it is permitted to greet someone other than the mourners in the house of an avel. <Ref>Chazon Ovadia Aveilut v. 3 p. 28, Tzitz Eliezer (Ramat Rachel 5:51). See however Aruch Hashulchan 385 who is strict.</ref> | ||
==Lighting a Candle== | |||
# The minhag is to light a candle for the neshama of the deceased during the shiva and it is done even over Yom Tov and Chol Hamoed.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 3, p. 54), Mishna Brurah 548:3</ref> | |||
# Some say that one can fulfill this minhag with electric lights.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 3, p. 54)</ref> | |||
==Covering the Mirrors== | ==Covering the Mirrors== | ||
# The minhag is to cover the mirrors in the mourner's house.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 3 p. 52) explains that the the minhag to cover the mirrors is based on the fact that people daven there and it is forbidden to daven in front of a mirror. He adds that the Chatom Sofer is quoted as saying that the covering of the mirrors functions in place of turning over the beds.</ref> | # The minhag is to cover the mirrors in the mourner's house.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 3 p. 52) explains that the the minhag to cover the mirrors is based on the fact that people daven there and it is forbidden to daven in front of a mirror. He adds that the Chatom Sofer is quoted as saying that the covering of the mirrors functions in place of turning over the beds.</ref> | ||
