Halacha’s intervention in mourning for the dead
Hello, Michi.
What is the logic in the fact that the halakha determines the form of mourning and how much one should mourn for one’s father and mother and goes so far as to forbid them for an entire year? What is the religious goal they are trying to achieve here? As if there is spiritual value in mourning like in putting on tefillin, for example? As I understand it, mourning is an emotion that everyone experiences in their own way, what is the meaning of the intervention here?
For some reason you decided that mourning has no purpose other than expressing our feelings. This is in contrast to putting on tefillin, which has other purposes. Don’t give up and don’t make it difficult.
This is essentially the question, what is the point of the mourning mitzvahs?
I don't know. It can have all kinds of purposes. For example, to pay respect to the dead, or to channel emotions and not let us fall apart (like a kind of meditation), and so on.
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