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# One who is sick and if he is told that a relative of his has died, he will r'l also die, then one does not tell him the bad news.<ref>Mesechtas Moed Kotton 26b, Rambam Hilchos Avel 8:4, Tur Y.D. 337, Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 337:1, Levush 1, Aruch Ha’shulchan 1, </ref> This is true even if the sick person asks for the reason that the family member etc has died. | # One who is sick and if he is told that a relative of his has died, he will r'l also die, then one does not tell him the bad news.<ref>Mesechtas Moed Kotton 26b, Rambam Hilchos Avel 8:4, Tur Y.D. 337, Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 337:1, Levush 1, Aruch Ha’shulchan 1, </ref> This is true even if the sick person asks for the reason that the family member etc has died. | ||
==Title of Rav== | ==Title of Rav== | ||
# The opinion of Harav Elchonon Wasserman zt"l was that one should not be called "Rav" unless he is a Rav of a Shul, posek, or a Rosh Yeshiva.<ref>Titen Emes L’Yaakov page 34:64, Niv Sefasayim pages 117-118 in depth. See Titen Emes L’Yaakov page 198. </ref> However, today, the custom is to be lenient with this.<ref>Opinion of Harav Shlomo Zalman | # The opinion of Harav Elchonon Wasserman zt"l was that one should not be called "Rav" unless he is a Rav of a Shul, posek, or a Rosh Yeshiva.<ref>Titen Emes L’Yaakov page 34:64, Niv Sefasayim pages 117-118 in depth. See Titen Emes L’Yaakov page 198. </ref> However, today, the custom is to be lenient with this.<ref>Opinion of Harav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l quoted in Titen Emes L’Yaakov pg. 198 and Chuko Mamtakim 1:page 45. Refer to Zecher Yehusef O.C. 70:page 184. </ref> Accordingly, even one who did not get semicha may be called Rav or Rabbi. | ||
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