Related%20passage for Moed Katan 38:13
א"ל אינו עולה איתיביה הקובר את מתו שני ימים קודם הרגל מונה חמשה ימים אחר הרגל ומלאכתו נעשית ע"י אחרים ועבדיו ושפחותיו עושים בצינעא בתוך ביתו ואין רבים מתעסקין עמו
what [is your view]? - He [Rabbah] replied, The [days of the] festival do not enter into the counting. [Thereupon] he put to him an objection from [the following]: If one buried his dead two days before the festival, he counts five [supplementary] days after the festival,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To make up the requisite seven days of mourning.');"><sup>21</sup></span> and his work is done [for him] by others; his men-servants and maid-servants do [their domestic] work quietly indoors, privily; and the public do not [need to] condole formally<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'busy themselves'.');"><sup>22</sup></span> with him
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