Avirah, how predictable! Chazon Ish is a shvere da’as yochid that almost all other Acronim argue with. ChofetzChaim did not hold like that (learnt his seifer?). That famous (especially by the Amerikanishe oilam) Gemora with Rabi Meir. Look in the Tosfos there! And how about a befeirushe Gemora in Sota that Ya’akov Avinu after his petirah smiled in celebration that Eisov was killed etc. Regarding mumar, shiva?!? I heard from a Rov that Rav Eliyashev told someone to do just that — to celebrate! I heard Rav R.Feinstein say that me’ikar ha’din there is no chiyuv shiva, just because of eivah. And, besides, what kind of an answer is this:” Rabbonim nowdays…”? It is an eternal question. Are you Reform or Conservative that by you it changes with the times?
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