Question:
Is it permitted to purchase a new car for oneself or to request it as a gift during the year after the loss of a parent, purely for pleasure (the mourner has a semi-new safe and reliable vehicle already)?
Answer:
It is permitted because buying a car is not one ofthe things that an avel can not purchase.
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Additional reading:
- Singing during aveilus
- Can I redecorate and change flooring in my dining room during year of aveilus?
- May I go to the gym during the year of availus?
- Mishloach manos during availus
- dinei aveilus
- Is it mutar during shloshim/aveilus year to make a bracha of shehechiyanu on fruit?
- Going to a close friend's son's aufruf