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# One should tear the front of the shirt from the collar downward (vertically) and not across. If one tore the back, the bottom, or the side one didn't fulfill his obligation.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 340:2, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:2</ref> | # One should tear the front of the shirt from the collar downward (vertically) and not across. If one tore the back, the bottom, or the side one didn't fulfill his obligation.<ref>Shulchan Aruch YD 340:2, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:2</ref> | ||
# One must tear the garment where it was originally complete and not an area which was only sewn together. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:2</ref> | # One must tear the garment where it was originally complete and not an area which was only sewn together. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:2</ref> | ||
# One who is [[mourning]] a parent should tear on the left side of one's body so as to uncover one's heart, but one who is [[mourning]] any other relative should tear on the right side of one's body. If one did otherwise, after the fact one fulfilled one's obligation either way.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:4</ref> | # One who is [[mourning]] a parent should tear on the left side of one's body so as to uncover one's heart, but one who is [[mourning]] any other relative should tear on the right side of one's body. If one did otherwise, after the fact one fulfilled one's obligation either way.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:4</ref> | ||
===How to do the tear=== | |||
# For a parent one must tear with one’s hands and for another relative one can tear with one’s hands or with knife. Even for a parent the minhag is to start with a knife and then the person tears downward a tefach.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:5, Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 1 p. 229), Rav Mordechai Eliyahu's comment on Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 195:3</ref> | |||
# The Sephardic minhag is that someone else does the kriyah for the mourner and he recites the bracha.<ref>Birkei Yosef 340:12, Chazon Ovadia (Aveilut v. 1 p. 229)</ref> | |||
===Which Garments to Tear=== | ===Which Garments to Tear=== | ||
