767 | Fasting on the Jahrzeit Hayyim 568 : 7, with a discussion as to whether during a leap - year this should take place at the first or the second Adar . However, David Avraham ( Kol Bo ibid . note 940 ) , brings a number of authorities who understood the Maharam mi - Rothenberg’s statement as referring to the actual day of death, basing themselves on a passage in BTShavuot 20 a, and BTNedarim 2 a, which are themselves somewhat ambiguous . 2 This also appears to be the view of the author of Sefer Hasidim, ed . Shimon Gutman, Brooklyn ( n . d . ) , Vol . , sect . 23 , p256 : The reason one fasts on the day of one’s father’s decease is that David fasted on the death of Saul, and he called him “my father” ( Samuel and so also Jonathan ( Samuel : 2 ) , and also Abner, for one has , ) 2 : 24 to fast over ] the decease of [ a great man . Fasting on the death of a great man is mentioned in PT Moed Katan 3 : 7 : He who sees a scholar ( Talmid Hacham ) who has died, it is as though he has see...
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