Purim Celebration in the Year of Mourning
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Question
Is it permissible for a mourner to participate in a Purim celebration with music and songs?
Answer
It is permitted only during the day and not at night, as during the day it is a mitzvah meal that the mourner is obligated to attend.
Source
It is written in the Rema, Siman 695, Seif 1: "It is a mitzvah to increase the Purim meal (Tur); and one fulfills with one meal". It is also written there that the meal is during the day and not at night. This is also ruled by the Kaf HaChaim, Siman 696, Subparagraph 26.
And although the Rema wrote in Siman 391, Seif 2, that it is customary not to participate in any meal throughout the twelve months of mourning outside one's home, here it is different because the mourner himself is obligated in this meal, and it is not similar to a meal that is a mitzvah for others in which he is forbidden to participate.
See also Azmera LeShimcha on Purim.
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