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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> | ||
==Bringing Food out of the Mourner's House== | |||
# Some have the practice not to bring food out of the shiva house<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 376:11</ref> if the person died at home<ref>Tzitz Eliezer (Even Yakov no. 44:4)</ref>. However, many are lenient about this.<ref>Yosef Ometz p. 192. Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 3 p. 60) | |||
writes that if a person isn't concerned there is no problem to take food out of a mourner's house.</ref> | |||
==Lighting a Candle== | ==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> | # 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> | ||
