[Avodah] Is it ossur to have a good time?

[Rich, Joel]

> But obviously he didn't give a shiur on the subject without lengthy 
> background. Rashei peraqim: RYBS defines aveilus as only coming in 
> three
> flavors: shiv'ah, sheloshim, and shanah. And thus, miqtzas aveilus 
> would be a term for the least level. Same as his model for the 
> differences between bein hametzarim, the 9 days, and 9 beAv itself.

Where is this shiur?  As you summarize it, it seems to go against other
ideas I've heard attributed to RYBS, such as "hashkafah is derived from
examining the halacha, it doesn't drive halacha."

Does the halacha (Rishonic, or even before the post-Rupture chumra
machine, and absent Brisker chumras that RYBS held for himself) really
support that?  Do the known issurim during sefirah actually correspond
to the known issurim of shanah?
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AIUI R'YBS felt that a later takanah of aveilut would perforce have to
follow an earlier existing model (a la kol dtakun rabbanan kein duraita
takun) - very consistent with R'YBS general approach to change.

KT
Joel Rich
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