<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On May 3, 2017, at 7:06 AM, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" class="">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">That's fine. A secular holiday can and should be pushed off. But it is<br class="">no longer a religious holiday that can allow someone to say Hallel --<br class="">certainly -- with a bracha and push off sefirah minhagim. The Halachically<br class="">viable basis for Hallel and simcha during sefirah is only applicable to<br class="">5 Iyar.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>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. Now there are some important differences. For one thing, Purim seemed to be a concern of ignorance, not secularity. But it does seem to establish the precedent that it can be done.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>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.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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