Reply To: Yartzeit – when niftar is in different time zone than his offspring

I saw that the Bircas Chaim s. 40 and Tshuvas Doda’ay Hasodeh s. 92 and Kolbo p. 396 hold that like all matters of Torah you go according to where the person is, and here the person is the OFFSPRING who are the ones that commemorate the yartzeit.

It is a bit of a chiddush to me and counter-intuitive as most of Torah is “da’as balHabayis hepech Torah”.

In contrast, the Gesher HaChaim ch. 32:14l Shut Chelkas Yaakov vol 2 s. 101, Shut Be’er Moshe vol 2 . 114 all hold that it goes according to the place of the niftar because it is for his neshama.

Based on that, maybe some yartzeit hanhogos which are for tovas hames (like kaddish) should be commemorated according to the date at the place of niftar, while hanhogos that relate to the offspring (such as fasting, not making a simcha etc.) should be commemorated based according to the day of their location.

That would result in a “split” yartzheit!