[Avodah] Yizkor

[Rich, Joel]

On 10/06/2011 11:15 AM, Rich, Joel wrote:
> Any idea on how yizkor got tied to shalosh regalim given that 
> Vsamachta is directly in opposition to the emotions of yizkor? (I have 
> one source with an answer but it's not overly satisfying-and the 
> original minhag ashkenaz was clearly not to say it on shalosh regalim)

"Ish kematnas yado".  When we read this portion, the minhag is to pledge tzedaka, and it's natural to pledge in memory of the dead, so it became a whole seder of "hashkavot", as the Sefardim call it, which was little different from the seder of yizkor on Yom Kippur.


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Zev Sero    
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But the minhag was to be nodeir for the chayim on the shalosh regalim and specifically to avoid for the meitim (see machzor vitri siman 312) so it sounds like this was "overruled" by the emotional desire? (not unlike having everyone say kaddish perhaps?)
KT
Joel Rich
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