Commentary for Moed Katan 38:2

אבא שאול אומר מותר לגלח אחר הרגל שכשם שמצות שלשה מבטלת גזרת שבעה כך מצות שבעה מבטלת גזרת שלשים

If he had not cropped himself on the day before the festival, he is forbidden to crop himself after the festival.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the remaining period of mourning up to thirty is resumed: it having been only suspended but not canceled. vumn');">³</span> Abba Saul says, He is permitted to crop himself after the festival; for just as the '[observed] obligation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' means a positive order and denotes rather the positive aspect, the active fulfillment of the obligation to the departed, in contrast to the vrhzd , the restrictive aspect of mourning.');">⁴</span> of three' [days] quashes the restriction of the seven'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not to be resumed again.');">⁵</span>

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