Eating in the Yeshiva Dining Hall During Year of Mourning
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Question
Is there a prohibition for a Yeshiva student in his year of mourning for his father to eat in the Yeshiva dining hall, where hundreds of students gather together and eat, because of the prohibition of having friendly meals?
Answer
He is permitted to eat in the Yeshiva.
Source
Rashi wrote that a friendly meal is one that friends and loved ones make with each other.
The Rema wrote in Siman 391, Se'if 2: "And the custom is not to eat at any meal in the world for all 12 months, if it is outside his home." And the opinion of our teacher is that home is not the four walls in which he lives, but home means where his immediate family is or his established place where he sits. And since the holy Yeshiva is his dwelling and home, he can eat with the students in the Yeshiva dining hall.