Music at the Siyum HaShas - Counting of the Omer

Question

Tomorrow is the Siyum HaShas. Is there a halachic permission for Ashkenazim to play recorded music at the siyum, and is dancing allowed?

Answer

Hello,

The rabbis are divided on this issue, and there are authorities to rely on to permit it at the siyum meal.

However, in practice, our teacher, the Gaon, Rabbi Amram Fried, shlita, instructed to be stringent about this until Lag BaOmer.

Answered 6 May 2024 How answers are reviewed

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Rabbi Israel Cohen

Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah

Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah

Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah

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Source

In Magen Avraham (Siman 493, S.K. 1) and in Mishnah Berurah (S.K. 3), it is written that the prohibition is only 'dances and frivolous celebrations'. It is clear that for the sake of a mitzvah, it is permitted. This is also evident from what they wrote that at an engagement meal it is prohibited because it is not a mitzvah but a permissible act.

However, Da'at Kedoshim, as brought in Shut Minchat Yitzchak (Part 1, Siman 111), prohibits even at mitzvah meals.

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