Question:
My father z”tl was niftar on Thursday morning. Unfortunately we had to wait until Sunday afternoon to bury him. My brother in Israel could not make it to the levayah and started sitting on Friday, Erev Shabbat. The rest of the family started sitting 2 days later, on Sunday, after the kevurah. Does this situation mean that now we will be observing different dates for our father’s z”tl shloshim?
Answer:
Hamakom Yinachem eschem b’toch shar aveilei t’zion.
If there were two different shiva dates, then there will be two different endings of the sheloshim.
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