Commentary for Moed Katan 37:8

ר' אליעזר אומר משחרב בית המקדש עצרת כשבת

APPERTAINING TO HIS SEVEN DAYS' MOURNING FALL AWAY; [IF HE BURIES HIS DEAD] EIGHT DAYS BEFORE A FESTIVAL, THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE THIRTY [DAYS] FALL AWAY,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the remaining period of formal mourning down to thirty days lapses on his having duly observed the first seven days plus one day of the remaining period before the festival.');">¹⁰</span> BECAUSE THEY [THE SAGES] SAID THAT THE SABBATH ENTERS INTO COUNT BUT DOES NOT INTERRUPT,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it neither counts as a blank day, nor does it cancel the rest. The re maining days of mourning continue after the Sabbath.');">¹¹</span>

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