- Q. Moreinu. Someone in my family is making a wedding on Zain Adar (Adar 7, March 6 25) should I attend? If not, can I zoom the wedding?
A. Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 580: 2) includes Zain Adar (Adar 7) in the list of the days that mark mournful occasions of tragedies or persecution that happened to our nation and it is proper to fast on them. It mentions (ibid. 2) that it is the day when Moshe Rabbenu passed away.
Piskei Teshuvos (ibid. 1) quotes opinions of forbidding weddings on those days, however he mentions that many do perform marriages on those occasions (Hanisuim Kehilchosom 5: 59). Nitei Gavriel (15: 3) similarly mentions that many Gedolim permit.
We have mentioned repeatedly that zooming any ceremony does not usually count as actually attending and being there, therefore even if one follows the tradition of avoiding attending a wedding on Zain Adar, it would be permitted to zoom to it.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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