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==Mourning and Fasting on Purim== | ==Mourning and Fasting on Purim== | ||
# Even though Purim is a joyous occasion it doesn't cancel aveilut.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 401:7</ref> | # Even though Purim is a joyous occasion it doesn't cancel aveilut.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 401:7</ref> | ||
# Someone in shiva on Purim doesn't observe aveilut | # Someone in shiva on Purim doesn't observe aveilut publicly but does so private like he would on Shabbat ([[Aveilut on Shabbat]]).<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 401:7. Shach 401:4 writes that there is a contradiction in Shulchan Aruch between YD and OC and he concludes that we follow what it says in YD that there is no aveilut on Purim except in private.</ref> | ||
# It is forbidden to send Mishloach Manot to someone who is in aveilut for the duration of the 12 months for a parent or thirty days of another relative.<ref> | # A mourner for 12 months for a parent or month for other relatives does give Mishloach Manot on Purim but he should only give a few and only give meal type foods and not candies.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 696:6 writes that a mourner should give mishloach manot. Mishna Brurah 696:20 adds that he shouldn't send fun things, instead he should send money or meat. Chazon Ovadia p. 193 agrees. Nitai Gavriel 78:10 writes that he shouldn't give more than a two or three mishloach manot.</ref> | ||
# It is forbidden to send Mishloach Manot to someone who is in aveilut for the duration of the 12 months for a parent or thirty days of another relative.<ref>Rama 696:6. Mishna Brurah 696:20 explains that the reason it is forbidden is because it is forbidden to greet the mourner within the 12 months of mourning a parent so too it is forbidden to send them a gift.</ref> Sephardim hold it is permitted to send mishloach manot to a mourner.<ref>Chazon Ovadia p. 193 writes that since Shulchan Aruch YD 401:7 writes there's no mourner on Purim he can even receive Mishloach Manot.</ref> | |||
# If a woman is in mourning it is permitted for the friends of the husband to send him Mishloach Manot since he's not in mourning.<ref>Chazon Ovadia p. 194</ref> | |||
# The poskim permit sending mishloach manot to a rabbi when is in mourning on Purim since it isn't a sign of friendship.<Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 696:10 citing Teshuvot Vehanhagot 1:692, Divrei Malkiel 237</ref> | # The poskim permit sending mishloach manot to a rabbi when is in mourning on Purim since it isn't a sign of friendship.<Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 696:10 citing Teshuvot Vehanhagot 1:692, Divrei Malkiel 237</ref> | ||