Responsa for Moed Katan 44:1
ממעט על אביו ועל אמו ממעט
he does not minimizes it'; but for his father or mother he should minimize [his business].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., even after the burial, during the thirty days of mourning. Han. and Hay Gaon, quoted Otz. Hag. no. 199.');"><sup>1</sup></span> For all [other] dead, if he desires, he bares [his shoulder] and if he does not desire he does not bare it; for his father or mother he must bare [his shoulder].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And also bares his heart (chest) . Sem. IX.');"><sup>2</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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