[Avodah] Aveilus

[Cantor Wolberg]

I once saw a beautiful teshuva regarding the halacha of the length of  
aveilus and the seeming disparity between only 30 days for a child and  
a year for parents.
When parents loses a child they will be mourning the rest of their  
lives, therefore, in order not to exacerbate it, halacha has  
compassionately made the (external)
aveilus for only 30 days. For a parent, however, children easily  
forget and need to be reminded. Therefore -- the year. It reminds one  
of a parent can care for ten
children, but ten children can't care for one parent.
Obviously the explanation is a generality but it is something to think  
about.
Also, I'm not really doing justice in explaining it the way I saw it  
originally.
ri