[HANASHIR:9149] Re: halacha against instrumentation

[Eric Simon <erics...>]

>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?

As we wrote before, it is not just "a building" or else people wouldn't be
swarming to the Kotel all the time.  And, as I wrote earlier, if you insist
that we should no longer mourn, doesn't consistency demand tht you insist
that we no longer smach a glass at a wedding?  

As far as my feelings go, so long as there is sinas chinam (senseless
hatred) between Jews, I will mourn.

>Exactly right.   We mourn for a year.  Then life goes on and although we 
>continue to remember, we no longer mourn.

Could the same argument be used against, e.g., the things we do to
memorialize the Holcaust?  (The sirens in Israel, etc.)

-- Eric


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