Yashi & P, as you saw from my earlier post, I am very much not in favor of people socializing when they go be menachem avel. But now that you clarified what happened to you, I wanted to add that I find it completely unacceptable to ignore someone offering a handshake. Even if that person was not introduced by the avel himself, which was what happened in your case. Ignoring someone like that is not normal behavior anywhere, including a bais avel. The person in question could have politely and briefly returned your gesture, without getting into a noisy conversation with you in front of the avel. You shouldn’t feel offended. You should feel very sorry for the person. If he behaved that way, he nebach clearly has no functioning brain cells.
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