16. Mourner attending Pidyon Haben – Onen, Shiva, Shloshim, Year of Aveilus

• 0
• 322

3. The reason and purpose behind the mourning rituals

• 0
• 563

Attending a meal and joyous event during the year of Aveilus, past Shloshim

• 1
• 2944

Autopsy in Jewish law

• 0
• 657

Bathing during Shloshim

• 1
• 7171

Being buried in Eretz Yisrael

• 0
• 1113

Burying a Gentile in a Jewish cemetery or vice versa

• 0
• 3687

Buying a Plot

• 0
• 2915

Buying and wearing new clothing

• 3
• 6995

Can a person sit Shiva for a missing person-Mourning if there is no identified body of the deceased

• 0
• 1210

Comforting a mourner after Shiva-May/Should one do so?

• 1
• 1008

Descendants going to Levaya and Burial

• 0
• 3550

From the Rav’s Desk: A father reciting Kaddish for a child who passed away r”l

• 1
• 1241

From the Rav’s Desk: Assisting in the cremation of a Gentile corpse

• 2
• 1193

From the Rav’s Desk: Convert keeping Yartzite for Jewish father

• 0
• 1154

From the Rav’s Desk: Following mourning customs if a relative is reburied

• 0
• 1003

From the Rav’s Desk: Lighting from flame of Yartzite candle

• 0
• 939

From the Rav’s Desk: Mourner getting haircut prior to the passing of 3 months if reprimanded

• 0
• 907

From the Rav’s Desk: Mourning a non-Frum relative

• 0
• 1210

Getting a haircut during Aveilus

• 1
• 5796
• 2

Giving a Hesped-Chabad custom and custom of other communities not to eulogize

• 0
• 906

Hallel in house of Avel

• 0
• 1352

Having a Mechitza by a Funeral and Eulogy

• 0
• 351

How does one calculate the end of the eleven months for Kaddish – from the time of death or the time of burial?

• 0
• 356

How many Yartzite candles to light for parents?

• 1
• 1002

If one did not begin saying Kaddish after the burial, for how long is Kaddish to be recited?

• 0
• 194

Is Kaddish recited for a child who passed away below Bar Mitzvah r”l?

• 0
• 576

Is the Chabad custom to light a Yizkor candle?

• 0
• 1836

Keeping a happy mood around an ill person

• 0
• 955

Laws of Hesped/Eulogies

• 0
• 24356

Laws of precedence/Kadima for Chazan

• 0
• 4911

Learning the laws of Aveilus-Mourning and why some avoid doing so

• 0
• 1530

Lighting a Yartzite or Yizkor candle for Yom Tov

• 2
• 6371

Likkut Atzamos-The process of unearthing and reburying a body

• 1
• 1247

May a body be buried in an over ground structure [i.e. Mausoleums; Kevurat “Komot”; Rama, Sanhedrin cave burials]?

• 1
• 2603

May an Avel Daven for the Amud in the 13th month by a leap year

• 1
• 832

May an Avel participate in Simchas Beis Hashoeiva?

• 0
• 709

May one eat food in a Shiva home?

• 2
• 5402

May one sign a DNI or DNR order for himself, or for a patient under his care

• 5
• 8236

Minhagei Yartzite for Yud Shvat

• 0
• 778

Minhagim for Gimmel Tammuz that falls on Shabbos

• 0
• 1103

Minhagim relevant for when Yud Shevat falls on Shabbos

• 0
• 421

Mourning laws applicable to Pesach

• 0
• 356

Moving a corpse outside of Israel for burial

• 0
• 963

Not to blow out candles with one’s mouth

• 6
• 8523

Participating in wedding and other festive meals on day of Yahrzeit

• 0
• 3891

Pesach & Erev Pesach breaking Shiva & Shloshim

• 0
• 731

Ruling like the lenient opinion by Aveilus

• 0
• 570

Shomer Shabbos cemetery or plot

• 3
• 4494

Spilling out all drawn water in the vicinity when a person passes away

• 0
• 542

Spilling water in home when person passes away

• 0
• 4592

Tefillin on first day of mourning

• 0
• 5238

The accustomed dates for visiting the grave of a deceased relative

• 0
• 1387

The Brain death debate in Jewish law-Organ transplants and Removing from life support

• 0
• 2631

The Chevra Kadisha fast and prayers for the 15th of Kisleiv

• 2
• 2849

The Chevra Kadisha-Who are they and what are their responsibilities

• 0
• 885

The laws of mourning being called Miseches Semachos and Dinei Semachos

• 0
• 628

The Mitzvah of Bikur Cholim-Why? How? When?

• 0
• 1742

The Mitzvah of Taharah and its order

• 0
• 457

The number of months to say Kaddish for a child who passed away r”l

• 1
• 980

The vengeance of a murder victim in Halacha

• 0
• 453

Wearing the shoes and other clothing of the deceased

• 2
• 9366

When to end the saying of Kaddish for one who passed away

• 4
• 14084

Who receives precedence for Maftir – an Avel within Shloshim or one who has a Yahrzeit?

• 0
• 270

Women going to Levaya

• 0
• 7659

Yizkor

• 0
• 4642