Responsa for Eruvin 81:3
ורבי יוסי אומר מתענה ומשלים אמר להן ר' יוסי אי אתם מודים לי בט' באב שחל להיות באחד בשבת שמפסיק מבעוד יום אמרו לו אבל אמר להם מה לי ליכנס בה כשהוא מעונה מה לי לצאת ממנה כשהוא מעונה
while it is yet day? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though it is the Sabbath day he must cease eating before the day comes to an end.');"><sup>7</sup></span> - 'Indeed [it is so]', they replied.' What', he said to them, 'is the difference between<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what to me'.');"><sup>8</sup></span> beginning the Sabbath<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to enter it'.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
A. A baal-berith (the person who holds the child during circumcision) is permitted to change his clothes and to bathe on the day the child is circumcised, even if such day be within his "period of mourning" (thirty days). The prohibition against changing one's clothes and bathing within the "period of-mourning" is based on custom and does not apply to persons performing a Mitzvah (religious duty). Within the thirty days of mourning, however, a person is not permitted to take part in a religious banquet, though one is permitted to return a visit to a secular feast. Therefore, the baal-berith is not permitted to take part in the banquet following circumcision.
SOURCES: L. 227, 8, 9; cf. Mord., Moed katan, 891.
SOURCES: L. 227, 8, 9; cf. Mord., Moed katan, 891.
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