[Avodah] Who First Said It? 7 - Mourning during Sefirah

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 01:01:58AM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: There is another derech/approach
: Given 49 days
: Take aways shabbos YT ChhM etc. And it leaves 33 days to observe mourning

There are 12 minhagim about how to count 33 days, actually. (Although a
few only differ by whether miqtzas hayom kekulo is invoked for this day
or that one. E.g. do you refrain on /or leLag baOmer/?)

: At any rate my thesis is primarily that the observences were motivated
: by ChhM considerations * and not for aveilus - which I primarily see as
: having evolved later on

It began being about bedavqa weddings. Of all the things one doesn't do
on ChhM, why weddings? I therefore am not convinced, yet.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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