Part Two – Death | 736 nor in Shulhan Arukh and the classical decisors, suggesting that this change in venue applies everywhere, even in one’s own house . However, in PTMoed Katan 3 : 5, the formulation is explicit namely that “in the first week he does not go to the synagogue, and in the second week he goes to the synagogue but does not sit in his regular place… etc . This is also what emerges from a reading of Rashi to the Rif ( Moed Katan ibid . ) . Hence, the standard practice is only to change one’s place in the synagogue and not in one’s own house . ( See Avraham Danzig, Hochmat Adam, Klal 67 : 2 . ) Danzig also adds that with regards to the twelve months one certainly should not take the stringent path “for I have never seen anyone practice so…” However, his opinion was not universally accepted . 2 Various reasons have been given for this custom . One such is that this is a symbolic form of exile, which can bring about his atonement, in the advent of his having in any way even u...
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