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

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:34:22PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: The issur taspores until erev shavuos is cited by Shaarei T'shuva O"Ch
: 493:8 in the name of the Arizal.

I assume you're using this as an indication that the Ari agreed with the
Zohar lemaaseh because if it were about talmidei R' Aqiva -- why more
than 32-33 days?

But the ShT doesn't actually say anything about the reason.

The PEC records a connection to
talmidei R' Aqiva AND acknowledges that the Ari held of avoiding
taspores 48 days. So it would seem that RCV didn't assume that
the two ideas conflict.

The death of the talmidim during part of the omer could in theory give
a meaning to the omer period as a whole: One is preparing for qabbalas
haTorah the entire duration. Because R' Aqiva's Torah is the making of
mountains out of tagim which in turn is paralleled by hair, this includes
an issur taspores.

This could extend beyond the 32-33 days in which they actually
died. Regardless of the ShT, how else would one understand the PEC?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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