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You may cry on Shabbos in order to relieve pain. If you plan or contemplate planning, on attending the funeral or burial, or will be involved in the funeral or burial arrangements, then you have the status of an Onen, which means that on Shabbos you may not study Torah, get an Aliyah, bathe, or have marital relations. However, you may eat meat and wine, Daven and say blessings as usual, and you are to begin saying the Mourners Kaddish, after each prayer. Towards the leave of Shabbos, prior to nightfall, you should Daven Maariv and say Havdala without a candle or spices [if the burial will not take place Motzei Shabbos]. As soon as Shabbos is over, you may no longer Daven or say blessings etc. until after the funeral, although you are to continue to say Kaddish. In the event you do not plan on attending the funeral or burial, and the arrangements for the burial are being taken care of by somebody else and the funeral and burial is taking place in another country, then you are to begin Shiva on Shabbos, and after Shabbos you are to Daven at home with a Minyan just like you would do by any Shiva.

See https://shulchanaruchharav.com/halacha/chapter-3-aninus-the-laws-of-an-onen/#_ftnref236

 

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About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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