Study Moed Katan folio 19B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
But isn’t it taught in a baraita: In the case of one who buries his dead relative 3 days before a pilgrimage Festival, the decree of the 7-day period of mourning is nullified for him. If one buries his dead relative 8 days before a Festival, the decree of 30 days is nullified for him, and therefor
Abba Shaul says: Even if he failed to cut his hair on the eve of the Festival, he is permitted to cut his hair after the Festival, for just as his observance of the mitzva of 3 days of mourning prior to the Festival cancels the decree of the 7-day period of mourning, and so if the deceased was buri
The Talmud asks: Why does Abba Shaul speak of the observance of 7 days of mourning? But didn’t we learn in the Mishnah that it requires 8 days? The Talmud explains: Abba Shaul maintains that the legal status of part of the day is like that of an entire day, and therefore the 7th day counts as both
And furthermore, even the Rabbis concede to Abba Shaul that when one’s 8th day of mourning occurs on a Shabbat, which is also the eve of a Festival, he is permitted to cut his hair on Friday, which is the 7th day. Since he is unavoidably prevented from cutting his hair on the 8th day, as it is pro
The Talmud asks: In accordance with whose opinion is that which Rav Amram said that Rav said: With regard to a mourner, once the comforters have stood up to leave his house on the 7th day of his mourning, he is immediately permitted to bathe? In accordance with whose opinion? In accordance with the