Shiva and shloshim calculator

How shiva and shloshim are counted

Shiva and shloshim are counted from the day of the burial, not the day of death. The day of the burial is day one, even if the burial was in the afternoon, and part of a day counts as the whole: the mourners get up from shiva on the morning of the seventh day, after the morning service, and the shloshim ends at sunrise on the thirtieth day. A burial that ended after nightfall, as at a night funeral in Jerusalem or on Saturday night, belongs to the next Hebrew day. Shabbat and Purim count as days of shiva, though there is no public mourning on them. What happens during shiva

A festival during shiva or shloshim

• A festival that begins during shiva ends it as it comes in, if the mourning had already begun, even only by taking off leather shoes. The days before the festival count as the seven, and the festival days count toward the thirty: after Passover the shloshim ends on 7 Iyar, after Shavuot on 22 Sivan and after Sukkot on 1 Cheshvan, in Israel and abroad alike (for a father or mother, see below).
• Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur count as festivals here: if Rosh Hashanah ends the shiva, Yom Kippur ends the shloshim; if Yom Kippur ends the shiva, Sukkot ends the shloshim.
• A festival that begins after shiva, within the thirty days, ends the rest of the shloshim, even when the seventh day is the eve of the festival.
• For a father or mother the festival does not permit a haircut, and the customs of the twelve months continue. So in that case the calculator shows the thirtieth day from the burial.
• A burial during Chol HaMoed (the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot): shiva begins after the festival. Outside Israel the last festival day (the second day) counts as day one, though shiva is not sat on it; in Israel day one is the day after the festival. The shloshim counts from the burial, festival days included. Shemini Atzeret is counted in two ways: Ashkenazim count it as one day; by the ruling of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, which many Sephardim follow, it counts as seven. So after a burial during Sukkot the calculator shows both dates, except for a father or mother.

When the calculator sends you to the rabbi

When the mourner heard of the death only after the funeral; when the burial was on Shabbat, a festival day, Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah; when the burial was on the eve of a festival and it is not clear whether the mourning began before it; and when the burial was on the eve of Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur and no mourning began before it came in. There are cases the calculator cannot tell, where it is worth asking which day to count from: a burial that ended between sunset and nightfall, a mourner who had already said the evening prayer before the burial ended, and a mourner who was not at the burial, for example when it was in Israel and they are abroad.

The year of mourning and Kaddish for a parent

For a father or mother, mourning lasts twelve Hebrew months from the burial, and no more, even in a Hebrew leap year (one with two months of Adar). In an ordinary year Ashkenazim keep the customs through the first yahrzeit itself; in a leap year the twelve months end a month before the yahrzeit, and mourning is not resumed on it. Ashkenazim say Kaddish for eleven months from the burial; in many Sephardi and Mizrahi communities the mourners pause for a week at the start of the twelfth month and then continue to the end of the twelve. The yahrzeit itself falls on the Hebrew date of death, and the yahrzeit calculator gives it for the next ten years. The year of mourning