Commentary for Moed Katan 48:12

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> אין קורעין ולא חולצין ואין מברין אלא קרוביו של מת ואין מברין אלא על מטה זקופה:

R'Papa invited<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'took him along, brought or led him forward'. R. Papa, as Principal, invited him to act as Amora or Turgeman of the occasion tkdhrs t,ca');">¹⁷</span> the elder R'Awia [to act as expositor] and he expounded [the theme]: 'One day [of mourning] before New Year and New Year's Day [together] account for fourteen [out of the thirty days]'. Said Rabina, According to this, then, one day [of mourning] before 'the Feast' [of Tabernacles] together with the [seven days of the] festival and 'the Eighth Day' [of 'Solemn Assembly'] account [together] for twenty-one [out of the thirty days of mourning]. Rabina turned up at Sura-on the Euphrates<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra 20a, p. 127.');">¹⁸</span> when R'Habiba of Sura-on-the Euphrates put the question to him: Did you, sir, say that one day<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Even one hour's mourning before the festival'.');">¹⁹</span> before New Year and New Year's Day [together] account for fourteen [out of the thirty days]? - He replied, I did say that, arguing on [the basis of] Rabban Gamaliel's view.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Mishnah supra 19a.');">²⁰</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>NONE REND [THEIR CLOTHES] NOR BARE [THEIR SHOULDER], NOR PROVIDE A REPAST [FOR THE MOURNERS]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After the interment at the house of the mourners, and sometimes in the special forum on the burial ground, where the lament was held. Cf. supra ');">²¹</span> SAVE THOSE [WHO ARE] NEAR OF KIN TO THE DEAD; NOR DO THEY PROVIDE A REPAST SAVE [SEATED] ON AN UPRIGHT COUCH.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a couch in its normal position. J.M.K. and other texts read, 'upright couches', i.e., couches for both the comforters and the mourners. 'Such was the custom; when they provided the mourners' fare and wished to take the meal, they set up the couches erect, and after the comforters left (the house) they overturned (upset) them (again) '. V. B.M. Lewin, Otz. Ha;. IV, n. 132.');">²²</span>

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