- Shabbat and Holidays
- General Questions
Visiting a grave on Shabbat
Various Rabbis
14 Tammuz 5763
Question
Is it true that you aren’t supposed to visit graves on Saturday? And why?
If there is no son to say "kadish" for a father, can a close grandson say it instead?
Answer
In the Gemara is written that consoling the mourner is forbidden with a few bare exceptions. The reason is that on Shabbat a person should not upset himself. Visiting the cemetery is obviously depressing for a variety of reasons.
A grandson may say Kaddish for his grandfather even though his father is still alive, as long as his parents agree.
Rabbi Ro'i Margalit
Shabbat muktzeh
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Collecting Taxes for Israel
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picking on shabbos
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Early Shabbat Malachah and Korban
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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.
A Convert Who Does Not Keep Shabbat
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I love pork
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Kissing a Mezuzah or Sefer
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One bracha or two
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Keeping 1 or 2 days Yom Tov in Israel
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Mezzuzah for Non Jew
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Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
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Genesis 24: 2-9 – Put your hand under my thigh
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converting to Jewaism
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman | Elul 25, 5783
Is a ger with a Levi father a Levi?
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