Study Moed Katan folio 23B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
There is some mourning on Shabbat, i.e., with regard to mourning rites that can be observed privately in the mourner’s home and will go unnoticed by other people; whereas those say: There is no mourning on Shabbat at all.
The Talmud explains: The ones who said that there is some mourning on Shabbat rely on that which is taught, that Shabbat counts as one of the days of mourning, implying that some degree of mourning applies on that day. The ones who said that there is no mourning on Shabbat at all base this on that
The latter argue as follows: If it should enter your mind to say that there is some mourning on Shabbat, there is a difficulty, for now that it has been stated that actual mourning applies on Shabbat, is it necessary to teach us that this day does not interrupt the mourning period? Rather, the conc
The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in the Mishnah that Shabbat counts as one of the days of mourning, implying that it is just like the other days of mourning, and at least some mourning rites are practiced on it? The Talmud answers: Since the Mishnah wished to teach in the latter clause that the
The Talmud asks: And according to the ones who said that there is some mourning on Shabbat, isn’t it taught in the Mishnah that it does not interrupt the mourning period, which would have been unnecessary to say if the mourning rites are practiced on it? The Talmud answers: This was not necessary fo