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=="One and a Half Days"== | =="One and a Half Days"== | ||
#There is a third possibility sometimes referred to as one and a half days. This doesn't mean to refrain from doing melacha for half of the day but rather to keep the stringencies of those keeping one day and those keeping two. This means not doing any melacha on the second day of [[Yom Tov]], but wearing [[tefillin]] with a beracha. (Second day of [[shavuot]], eight day of [[pesach]], and ninth day of [[sukkot]], or for those who wear [[tefillin]] on [[chol hamoed]] also second days of [[pesach]] and [[sukkot]]) <ref> Nefesh Harav 84-85. This is the opinion of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik quoted in Mesorah torah journal (http://www.ou.org/pdf/mesorah/mes%206.pdf) volume 6 page 18. </ref> | #There is a third possibility sometimes referred to as one and a half days. This doesn't mean to refrain from doing melacha for half of the day but rather to keep the stringencies of those keeping one day and those keeping two. This means not doing any melacha on the second day of [[Yom Tov]], but wearing [[tefillin]] with a beracha. (Second day of [[shavuot]], eight day of [[pesach]], and ninth day of [[sukkot]], or for those who wear [[tefillin]] on [[chol hamoed]] also second days of [[pesach]] and [[sukkot]]) <ref> Nefesh Harav 84-85. This is the opinion of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik quoted in Mesorah torah journal (http://www.ou.org/pdf/mesorah/mes%206.pdf) volume 6 page 18. </ref> | ||
==Burials on Yom Tov Sheni== | |||
# Practically funerals shouldn’t be performed on Yom Tov, on the first day or even Yom Tov sheni.<ref> | |||
* The Gemara Beitzah 6a explains that a funeral can be performed on the first day of Yom Tov by non-Jews and on the second day of Yom Tov by Jews. Rav Ashi explains that it can be done on the second day of Yom Tov even if the corpse wasn’t delayed and isn’t going to rot if not buried until after Yom Tov. | |||
* The Ran 3a s.v. amar mar zutra explains that even if the corpse isn't going to rot it may be buried on the first day of Yom Tov by non-Jews. | |||
* Additionally, the Ran 3a s.v. yom tov sheni holds that it may be buried on the second day of Yom Tov by Jews even if it could be buried by non-Jews. He writes that the Ramban agrees with his opinion and the Shiltot disagrees. | |||
* The Ran 3b s.v. vediamrinan writes that on the first day of Yom Tov only non-Jews should deal with the corpse and Jews shouldn’t even be involved in carrying the corpse even though it could have been justified by hilchot yom tov. The Rosh (Beitzah 1:5), however, argues that based on mitoch the Jews may carry the corpse. | |||
* The Rabbenu Tam (Tosfot Beitzah 6a s.v. veha’idna) held that it is forbidden to have Jews do a funeral on Yom Tov sheni since the conclusion of the gemara was that it shouldn’t be done because of a concern of a certain evil nation. Tosfot argues that nowadays that reason doesn’t apply and as such the prohibition doesn’t apply either. Rosh (Beitzah 1:5) agrees with Tosfot. | |||
* Shulchan Aruch 526:1 rules that it is permitted to do a funeral on the first day of Yom Tov by non-Jews even if the corpse won’t rot. Biur Halacha s.v. veafilu argues that not only is it permitted to do the funeral but it is obligatory since in general it is forbidden to delay a funeral. It is based on the Shulchan Aruch 526:2 who says that it is forbidden to delay a funeral from the first day of Yom Tov to the second day because it is delaying a funeral. | |||
* Chelkat Yakov 192 shows from numerous sources that it is permitted to delay the funeral to avoid chilul yom tov sheni, such as if people will drive to the funeral. One proof is that it is beneficial to violate a small aveirah in order to save someone else from a greater sin and delaying a burial is more lenient in that if it is for his honor it is permitted and chilul yom tov sheni is more serious since the rabbis treated it like a Biblical day of Yom Tov. Additionally it would for the honor of the dead person to delay the funeral so that there’s no desecration of Yom Tov. Finally, he says that it is an explicit gemara Shabbat 139a that it is permitted to delay a funeral on Yom Tov sheni to avoid a desecration of Yom Tov sheni. | |||
* Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe OC 3:76) agrees based on Tosfot b”k 81a s.v. omer that it is a honor to the dead person to delay the funeral to avoid desecration of Yom Tov sheni such as people driving or making calls to relatives to come to the funeral. </ref> | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
