[Avodah] Tachanun During Nissan

Zev Sero via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Sun Apr 19 10:34:18 PDT 2015


On 04/19/2015 07:00 AM, Kenneth Miller wrote:
> I wrote:
>> There's an error somewhere in that chain of quotes, namely Shabbos
>> Chol Hamoed Pesach. The calculation should say "6 days of Pesach", or
>> it should say "the 6 Shabbasos in sefira", but you can't have 7 in
>> both of those.
>
> R' Zev Sero added:
>> Indeed, the Bach notes this and corrects it.
>
> Glad to hear that, thank you. But over Shabbos, I thought of another
> problem: R' Akiva's talmidim were in Eretz Yisrael. There would never
> be a year where Pesach contains 7 days of Sefira. Even when including
> Shabbos Chol Hamoed, that yields only 6 days. Add 6 post- Pesach
> Shabbosim, and 3 days of Rosh Chodesh, and you have only 15 days of
> no Tachanun, leaving 34 days of mourning.

Except, as you note, in a year like this one.


> Perhaps this is why Mechaber 493:2 says that the mourning continues
> straight through Lag Baomer, and does not end until the morning of
> the 34th.

No, the Mechaber had never heard of this Tosfos that the Bach cites in
the name of the "Acharonim".  On the contrary, the only Tosfos he seems
aware of on topic is the one cited by Mahari ibn Shuaib, which says that
the plague raged throughout the Sefira, but that we only mourn for 33 days,
because we skip Yomtov, Shabbos, and Rosh Chodesh.  The Mechaber's own
minhag follows the medrash that the plague stopped 15 days before Shavuos,
i.e. the 34th was the last day.

Either there are two versions of this Tosfos, or the Acharonim whom the
Bach quotes are talking about the same Tosfos as Mahari ibn Shuaib does,
and one of them misunderstood it.  It would be nice to find it inside
(though of course that would not rule out a different girsa).


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