- Q. Dear Rov: On question 5175 above, you apparently permitted frum people when in need to attend the Kristallnacht anniversary. Is that not a most unusual and uncommon minhag for Bnei Torah?
A. Although commonly Bnei Torah and Yeshiva Bachurim don’t attend such ceremonies, when in need for Sholom Bais and respect to parents, it is permitted.
On a similar question (2165) we wrote:
"Q. I’m a yeshiva bochur and my parents asked me and my siblings to attend with them and my Holocaust surviving grandmother to a Yom Hashoah act, that takes place in Chodesh Nisan. I know it is very important to them. Should I go?"
To what we answered: "A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if your attendance is indeed of great importance to your parents and they will be pained if you don’t attend, it is permitted, even during the joyful month of Nisan, when Halacha dictates that avelus, acts of grief and mourning should be avoided.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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