[Avodah] Mourning for a parent
Simi Peters
familyp2 at actcom.net.il
Thu Jun 14 14:23:06 PDT 2012
From: Prof. Levine
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:56 PM
> ... IIRC it was Rav P. M. Teitz who said this, but I am not 100% sure.
> Everyone expects his parents to die if "things go normally"....
> However, no one expects a child to die. It is a tremendous shock
> for parents and is never forgotten. Thus 30 days is enough, because
> the passing of a child is never forgotten.
> How this fits with only 30 days for a spouse or a sibling I do not know.
One does not have the same halakhic obligations to a spouse or sibling.
A relationship with a spouse can be severed by death or divorce, so
one's obligations only obtain within an existing relationship. And one
is not commanded to honor or fear a sibling.
Simi
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