- Family and Society
- Year of Mourning for Parents
Attending wedding durin aveilos
Question
I am be"H planning a 2nd wedding soon. My married kids are still in aveilos for their father, who was niftar just 2 month ago. Can they attend chupah? Seudah? What if there is no music except to accompany walk down to chupah?.....
Thanks so much for your reply
Answer
ב"ה, ג אדר א תשע"ד
I consulted a posek who said as follows:
Assuming, the absence of your children will cause you great anguish they may participate in the wedding. They may attend the chupa as normal. However, they should not participate in dancing, and also during the meal they should partake in only some of the portions but not as they would normally do.
However, in addition to what I have told you, I should add that for your own sake you may want to consult the officiating Rabbi at the wedding or another prominent Rabbi known to the family and friends, this way your children will feel comfortable with the decision and it will not be challenged by participants as merely something you read off the internet.
May your 2nd marriage be an everlasting one. Mazal tov. May you know of much Simcha.

Smachot during Mourning year
Various Rabbis | 4 Kislev 5768
Year of Mourning for Parents
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Av 4, 5771

Yom Haatzmuot and the year of mourning
Rabbi David Sperling | Nisan 29, 5774

Death of Parent Prior to Rosh Hashanah
Various Rabbis | 26 Elul 5763

Rabbi Yoel Lieberman

Friday Night
Av 26, 5769

L’Dovid Hashem Ori
Elul 11, 5769

Modern laws vs Shulchan Orach
Av 28, 5769

Yerushalmi
Av 27, 5769

Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773
Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tevet 26, 5770

Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773

Sitting for Tefillin
Rabbi David Sperling | Sivan 12, 5772

Moser
Rabbi David Sperling | Elul 24, 5783
Blessings and Bnei Noach
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Tishrei 4, 5784
Is a ger with a Levi father a Levi?
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Elul 26, 5783
