Q. I’m B’H married, settled and learning and teaching in a Kolel in Yerushalaim, so I only keep one day Yom Tov.
I’m visiting my father in the States and since I daven for the amud for my recently deceased dearest mother O”H, I was wondering, this coming Friday is “Issru Chag” (day of joy after the end of Yom Tov), and usually an ovel does not daven then, yet for me Issru Chag will be already on Thursday. My question is can I daven for the amud and can I say Tachanun on Friday?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a opinion is that you can daven for the amud as others would anyway do, yet reciting Tachanun on the local day of Is’sru Chag in public should be avoided as it is a day of joy for the local attendants to shul and no Tachanun is said. You may however, say Tachanun privetly after davening.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a.
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