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==Prohibitions for the Avel== | ==Prohibitions for the Avel== | ||
# The avel is prohibited from working or leaving the house | # The avel is prohibited from working or leaving the house | ||
# washing/bathing/ | # washing/bathing/anointing | ||
# wearing shoes | # wearing shoes | ||
# tashmish hamitah | # tashmish hamitah | ||
# learning Torah | # learning Torah<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 15a forbids learning Torah when one is a mourner based on the pasuk in Yechezkel 24:17. This is codified in Shulchan Aruch 384:1</ref> | ||
# greeting others | # greeting others<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 15a forbids greeting others when one is a mourner based on the pasuk in Yechezkel 24:17. This is codified in Shulchan Aruch 385:1</ref> | ||
# Today, the custom is not to turn over the beds or wrap one's head. | # Today, the custom is not to turn over the beds or wrap one's head.<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 15a based on Yechezkel 24:17, Shulchan Aruch YD 386:1</ref> | ||
# laundering clothing and wearing freshly laundered clothing | # laundering clothing and wearing freshly laundered clothing<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 15a based on Shmuel II 14:2, Shulchan Aruch YD 389:1</ref> | ||
# haircutting and shaving | # haircutting and shaving<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 14b learned from the pasuk in Vayikra 10:6. This is codified in Shulchan Aruch YD 380:1</ref> | ||
# other practices | # other practices | ||
==Tefillin for a Mourner== | ==Tefillin for a Mourner== | ||
# On the first day of Shiva, if the burial is was on the same day as the passing, an Avel may not wear Tefillin, as the first day is most bitter.<ref> | # On the first day of Shiva, if the burial is was on the same day as the passing, an Avel may not wear Tefillin, as the first day is most bitter.<ref> | ||
