[Avodah] Tisha B'Av on Sunday

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:57:39 EDT, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> By no stretch of the imagination can a major meal  be called a
> "public display /of mourning/."...

I disagree. We all know why we're eating more, and why it's not the usual
seder hayom. Which is sort of my point; by conforming to pro forma
definition of avoiding aveilus berabbim, we are ignoring the fact that in
reality we're turning part of Shabbos into a pre-9 beAv specific thing --
and thus marking aveilus berabbim.

Tir'u baTov! 
-Micha