Teaching a Child for Pay While His Father Sits Shiva
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Question
A private tutor teaching a child Gemara, is it permissible for him to continue teaching the child while his father is sitting shiva?
Answer
Even though the father hires the tutor, it is permissible for the tutor to continue teaching, even in the mourner's home. This applies both to those hired on a contract basis and to daily workers.
Source
Beit Yosef, Yoreh De'ah, Siman 380: "Rabbeinu Yerucham (Nehach, Part 2, RLU) writes in the name of the commentators that from here we learn that if a mourner had a teacher or scribe or worker, they should not work in his house, but in the house of others, they may perform their work, and this is only if the work was given to them before the days of mourning, for if they were hired during the days of mourning, they are forbidden to work even in the house of others."
In Be'er HaGolah, SK 8, it is written: "It is questionable what work is related to a teacher."
In Maharil Diskin, it is written that what Rabbeinu Yerucham prohibits applies only to a teacher who is an assistant carpenter, but a Torah teacher is permitted, and therefore it proves that this is not considered work at all, and thus it is always permitted, even for daily workers and even in the mourner's home.
In Be'er HaGolah, SK 8, it is written: "It is questionable what work is related to a teacher."
In Maharil Diskin, it is written that what Rabbeinu Yerucham prohibits applies only to a teacher who is an assistant carpenter, but a Torah teacher is permitted, and therefore it proves that this is not considered work at all, and thus it is always permitted, even for daily workers and even in the mourner's home.
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