[Avodah] SZ and Tisha B'av (was The Three Weeks and Private Aveilus)

[Zev Sero]

Doron Beckerman wrote:
> Does anyone have any sources regarding an increase in the severity 
> levels of the Aveilus surrounding Tisha B'Av being due to the Shabbetai 
> Tzvi followers (across many communities) eating and partying on Tisha 
> B'av  and therefore high levels of Chumra were implemented? If so - only 
> regarding Tisha B'Av or the whole period?

I don't have a source that this is the reason for an increase in the
observance of this aveilus, but I can add some sources for the fact
that it was widely believed among O Jews that SZ Jews made a big deal
of davka violating TB.  (Whether this belief was actually true, I have
no idea.)

1. R Yonoson Eibshutz was an expert menaker, and would personally
treiber the meat for all his talmidim.  One of R Yaakov Emden's
accusations against R Yonoson was that he would deliberately leave in
some of the gid hanosheh, in order to be machshil people in eating it,
because each of the 365 mitzvot lo taaseh corresponds to a day in the
calendar and gid hanosheh corresponds to Tisha B'av; since, according
to the SZ people, TB had been abolished, so had been the issur of GhN,
and it was a "mitzvah" to eat it.

2. The infamous slander that was told to the GRA against the chasidim,
which caused him to conclude that they were an anti-halachic kat that
must be put in cherem, was that the Baal Hatanya was seen partying
with his followers on TB, with a girl on his lap.  (TB that year was
on Shabbos, and the girl was two years old.)


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