Advice on Avoiding the Meal of Consolation
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Question
A mourner who needs to eat the meal of consolation but does not want to ask others and also does not want to fast, can he transfer his meal to another person so that it is considered that he is not eating his own?
Answer
It is permitted, as it is considered that he is eating from others.
Source
This is what the poskim write, and it is logical, but it should be examined that in the Shulchan Aruch, Siman 378, paragraph 3, it is written from the Jerusalem Talmud that one who does not want to eat from others should fast and eat his own the next day. Why wasn't this advice written? It must be said that he does not want to eat from others because "one who hates gifts will live," and since he transferred to others, he will again not want to eat it.