[Avodah] Who First Said It? 9 - No Music during Sefirah

[Danny Schoemann]

RRW:
>> ...When did S'fira and music first get linked?

Michael Poppers MPoppers at kayescholer.com
> Initially, IINM, due to not making weddings (which featured music)
> during the timespan in question

This matches up with Hil. "To make a Zeicher L'Churban", in SA OC 560:3
or Kitzur SA 126:3
קיצור שולחן ערוך סימן קכו  - לעשות זכר לחורבן - סעיף ג
וכן גזרו שלא לשמוע שום כלי שיר ואפילו שיר בפה ואין לשורר בסעודות אלא
הזמירות שנתקנו כמו בשבת אבל פיוטים אחרים אסור לשורר.

For those (like myself) who don't see the Hebrew:
"Similarly they decreed [after the Churban] not to hear any musical
instrument, not even vocal singing, and one should not sing during
meals except for those Zemiros that were instituted, like on Shabbos,
but other Piyutim are forbidden to be sung."

Dating back to the Churban, Yidden didn't sing nor hear music all year
round (except for Chosson-Kalla and on Shabbos).

So there was no reason to codify that it should be forbidden during the
S'fira period.

The query should therefore be: When did listening to [Jewish] music
become permitted (except for Chosson-Kalla and on Shabbos)?

- Danny