[Avodah] nidche

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah]

On 5/4/2017 11:54 PM, Daniel Israel wrote:
> On May 3, 2017, at 7:06 AM, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer wrote:
>> That's fine. A secular holiday can and should be pushed off. But it is
>> no longer a religious holiday that can allow someone to say Hallel --
>> certainly -- with a bracha and push off sefirah minhagim. The Halachically
>> viable basis for Hallel and simcha during sefirah is only applicable to
>> 5 Iyar.

> My gut is with you on this.  But then we do need to at least address 
> the precedent of Purim.  We don’t say Hallel, but we say a bracha on 
> the Megillah.  And Chazal were willing to push off Purim to avoid 
> chillul Shabbos....

> Whether it should be done is a different question.  Following the 
> precedent of Purim would seem to argue for pushing off until Sunday, 
> but not until Monday, and certainly not Tuesday.  Yom HaZikaron could 
> be pushed earlier.

On Purim Meshulash, the Al HaNisim remains on Shabbos, and the Megillah 
with the bracha is relocated to the day everyone else is celebrating. 
Moreover, there is no clash between simcha on 16 Adar and some 
pre-existing minhag to diminish simcha. Those are some of the differences.

KT,
YGB