As I asked the Rov in Shul, should I, and can I attend, to comply with the mitzva of Kibud Av Vaem, a Yom Hashoa Remembrance Act, even in Nissan, since my parents are strongly asking me to also follow my survival grandfather and attend?
A. We had a similar question:
– #2165 No Partisan to the Simcha of Nisan?
Q. I’m a yeshiva bochur and my parents asked me and my siblings to attend with them and my Holocaust surviving grandmother a Yom Hashoah act, which takes place in Chodesh Nisan. I know it is very important to them. Should I go?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if your brief attendance is indeed of great importance to your parents and they will be pained if you don’t attend, it is permitted, even during the joyful month of Nisan, when Halacha dictates that avelus, acts of grief and mourning should be avoided.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a December 20, 2019
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