[Avodah] Music on Yom Haatzmaut and Lag B'Omer

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:56:31PM +0300, Rafi and Shifra Goldmeier wrote:
> While the Shulchan Aruch does not actually say anything about music  
> during Omer, the issues it does talk about are nahug until Lag or Lad  
> b'omer by day, and not the night before. So, why is music different?

While Ashkenazim get married on Lag baOmer, Sepharadim do not get married
until after Lag laOmer. (Which might be why the day goes by a name with
"ba-", as per the original minhag Ashkenaz, rather than the Sepharadic
"la-".)

Anyway, RAM posted to mail-jewish in the 1990s a list of 12 different
shitos about when to mourn during omer. I took his research, ran with
it on Avodah (the original discussion was pre-Avodah) and produced
<http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/05/mourning-during-omer-2.shtml>. I
dropped one of the Biur Halakhos' 3 opinions, because the BH himself
says it's hypothetical and no one holds by it. So, there are 11 shitos.

You'll notice that there are shitos which have LB as a day of mourning,
those that do not, and those that only mourn in the evening. Of the shitos
listed in the IM, only one requires mourning on LB and he personally
pasqened against following that custom (*), one has no mourning on LB,
and the others are evening only.

(* I didn't say "minhag", because unlike a minhag, the same IM says you
may switch year to year.)

To go back to the opening question, notice that every minhag predating
1948 require aveilus from 2 Iyyar to 17 Iyyar. So you can't simply select
a minhag that omits Yom haAtzma'ut, as one would to attend a wedding
made on a day you personally do observe, most years. (A situation I was
in this Rosh Chodesh.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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