[Avodah] Speaking in a Beis Avel

[Rich, Joel]

The following is from Mourning in Halachah, Chapter 17, Consoling Mourners.

1. To console mourners is a major precept.  Some consider this mitzvah to be Scripturally ordained (deOraysa).

2.  It is not enough merely to console the mourner; one must also say good things to him until one makes him happy, and his face becomes cheerful.

Please see http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/consoling_mourners.pdf  for the relevant pages.

YL
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IIRC there is also a school of thought that it's to get the aveil to say baruch dayan emet, not to make him happy per se.
KT
Joel Rich
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