Is it advisable to visit the sick or comfort mourners on Shabbat if one does not do so during the week?
Synopsis
Those who go only on Shabbat but not during the week are criticized, since the Talmud only 'reluctantly' permitted these visits. An exception applies to one who is busy on weekdays and Shabbat is his only opportunity.
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Is it permitted to comfort mourners and visit the sick on Shabbat?
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What formula should one use when visiting the sick on Shabbat?
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What formula should one use when comforting mourners on Shabbat?
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May the synagogue beadle (shamash) publicly call out for the congregation to greet a mourner who enters the synagogue on Shabbat?
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When visiting a dangerously ill patient (choleh she-yesh bo sakanah) on Shabbat, may one cry out and pray intensely?
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Is the Ashkenazic custom to comfort mourners on Shabbat at all?
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Does the Shulchan Aruch's phrasing 'Shabbat hi mi-liz'ok u-refu'ah kerovah lavo' make sense in the context of comforting mourners, where the deceased is already dead?
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