- Family and Society
- Year of Mourning for Parents
Mourning period for parent
Question
Would someone who in their regular life actively participates in amateur musical and theatre rehearsals and performances (as performer not audience) be allowed to do so during the year-long mourning period for a parent?
Answer
If it is necessary for his Parnasa, then he may continue. If it is for pleasure then he should refrain.
Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger

Unable to Say Kaddish
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 19 Elul 5765

Mourner attending a brit milah
Rabbi David Sperling | Tishrei 9, 5780

When to stop saying Kaddish
Various Rabbis | 30 Shevat 5763

Purim Seuda after Shloshim for Aveylus
Rabbi David Sperling | Adar 11, 5773

Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.

Destruction of Divrei Torah
2 Kislev 5763

Backyard Eruv
15 Kislev 5763

Potential wedding date
9 Kislev 5763

I love pork
23 Cheshvan 5763

Mezuzah for a Catholic Family?
Rabbi David Sperling | Nisan 15, 5779

Cutting hair after lag bomer
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 17, 5772

Modesty in horseback riding
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 7 Tishrei 5766
Pornography for good use
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | 27 Cheshvan 5765
Tenach Melochim
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Iyyar 16, 5782

Trimming the beard
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 16, 5782
