[HANASHIR:9142] Re: Fwd: Re: halacha against instrumentation

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In a message dated 5/21/01 10:21:39 AM, BEBWH (at) aol(dot)com writes:

<< Actually we honor the memory of deceased love ones by living lives that we 
feel explifies them and what they stood for,  but first by sitting Shiva. We 
have many restrictions and we deprive ourselves considerably during the Shiva 
period. Then we have Shloshim where we have some less restrictions but we 
still deprive ourselves...and then we have 11 months of mourning where we 
continue to deprive ourselves for an entire year. Music (some say only live) 
is one of the things a mouner may not hear. The absense of music in the 
synagogue as a reminder of the "loss" of the Bais Hamikdash is exactly in 
step with Jewish mourning.  
 >>

Exactly right.   We mourn for a year.  Then life goes on and although we 
continue to remember, we no longer mourn.  If a year is long enough to mourn 
a parent or, God forbid, a child, isn't over 2000 years long enough to mourn 
a building? 

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