The Week [Shivah] of Mourning

Blessing of Mourners

Ruling leniently on issues of mourning in general: Eruvin 46a-b; Moed Katan 18a, 19b, 20a, 22a, 26b

For children who die before reaching the 30-day mark of viability: Shabbat 136a

For a spouse who dies after kiddushin: Bava Metzia 18a

Source for a 7 Day Mourning Period: Moed Katan 20a

The first 3 days are for crying, the first 7 for Eulogy: Moed Katan 27b

7 Days are kept for those relatives for whom a Kohen becomes Impure, as well as siblings from the mother and a married sister: Moed Katan 20b

Mourning for relatives who are one level removed from the Above relationships: Moed Katan 20b

Mourning for a person who is a relative of someone mourning in his household: Moed Katan 20b

Mourning for a mother/father-in-law, in respect for one's spouse: Moed Katan 20b

Keeping only 1 day for a Rebbe who taught him Torah: Moed Katan 25b

The 7-Day period where Mourning is pushed off until after the initial week of Marriage: Ketuvot 4a, Moed Katan 20b

Whether Mourning begins when the corpse leaves the house or at the sealing of the grave: Ketuvot 4b

Whether Part of the 7th day counts as the full day: Moed Katan 17b, 19b

If there are no mourners, ten people sit in the house of the deceased: Shabbat 152a-b

From when to count the 7 days, if one came from close by or from afar: Moed Katan 21b-22a

Shaving: Moed Katan 14b

One who may shave on the Intermediate Days of Holidays may shave during a period of Mourning: Moed Katan 14a-b, 17b

One who had consecutive mourning periods and fits into the Above line: Moed Katan 17b

Washing [on the first night]: Berachot 16b; Moed Katan 15b, 21a

Annointing his skin: Moed Katan 21a

Washing if the 3rd day is the Eve of a Holiday: Moed Katan 19b

Washing on the 7th day, after the visitors depart: Moed Katan 19b

Finger and Toe Nail-cutting: Moed Katan 17b-18a

Above, with a scissor: Moed Katan 18a

Not wearing [leather] shoes: Pesachim 4a; Moed Katan 15b, 20b, 21a

Covering his head: Moed Katan 15a

Covering of the head is supposed to be complete, "like that of the Ishmaelites": Moed Katan 24a

Laundering clothing: Moed Katan 15a, 17b

Make-up: Moed Katan 20b, Ketuvot 4b

Doing work: Moed Katan 15b, 21a

Differentiating between Work during and after the first 3 days: Moed Katan 21b

Minimizing business which is done for him by others; by deceased parents or other relatives: Moed Katan 22a-b

Minimizing business if he is travelling: Moed Katan 26b-27a

Greeting others, and responding to greetings: Moed Katan 15a, 21b

Going to Console other Mourners: Moed Katan 21b

During the first week, the mourner doesn't leave his house: Moed Katan 23a

Holding an infant: Moed Katan 26b

During the Moruner's Meal

Flipping over his bed: Moed Katan 15a-b, 20b, 21a

Flipping over beds which aren't slept in: Moed Katan 27a

From when the bed is flipped: Moed Katan 27a

Flipping a bed with protruding canopy-poles: Moed Katan 27a

Various types of chairs: Moed Katan 27a

General marital interaction: Moed Katan 20b, Ketuvot 4b

Sexual relations: Moed Katan 15b, 21a

A mourner who engages in sexual relations: Moed Katan 24a

Learning Torah: Moed Katan 15a, 21a

Speaking words of Torah in the mourner's home: Moed Katan 23a

Teaching Torah [without the usual assistant], where he is needed: Moed Katan 21a

Cleaning the mourner's house: Moed Katan 27a

Having spices and perfumes in the house, and making the Blessing on their Scent: Moed Katan 27a

A mourner doesn't stand before a Leader [Nasi], but if he stands then the Leader may not tell him to sit: Moed Katan 27b

Wearing Phylacteries: Berachot 11a, 16b; Moed Katan 15a, 21a; Ketuvot 6b; Tos. Berachot 11a #1

Having a mourner remove his Phylacteries if a new visitor arrives: Moed Katan 21a

Requirement of General Mitzvos: Berachot 11a, 16b, Ketuvot 6b

Sending Temple Offerings via a Proxy: Moed Katan 15b

Living in a "Succah" Hut during Succos: Succah 25b

The mourner sits at the head: Moed Katan 28b

Drinking Wine in the Mourner's House: Pesachim 110a, Ketuvot 8b

Shutting down the Study Hall of a Legal Decisor who dies: Moed Katan 22b

Shutting down all of the Study Halls, and changing seats in the Synagogue, for a Chief Justice who dies: Moed Katan 22b

Shutting down the Study Halls, and praying only as individuals except for the reading of the Torah, for the death of a Leader ["Nasi"] of the Jews: Moed Katan 22b-23a



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