Business Meeting at a Restaurant During the Mourning Year
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Question
Is a mourner within his year of mourning for his father allowed to hold a business meeting in a restaurant?
Answer
He may meet without any of the participants eating (a mourner is prohibited from participating in a meal where others eat and he does not), even if he is not in close friendship with the person he is meeting.
Source
According to the instructions of our teacher, the Rabbi, this is considered a meal of friends which is prohibited, as they have gathered together to eat. Therefore, he may meet without food.
And a mourner is prohibited from being at a meal where others eat, even if he does not eat, as proven from the language of the Gemara in Moed Katan 22: 'A mourner should not enter a house of feasting, etc.'