Laws of Mourning When a Father Sits Shiva for His Brother
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Question
Should someone whose father is sitting shiva for his brother observe some mourning customs until Shabbat, and for which relatives is the rule that whoever mourns for the deceased mourns with him applicable?
Answer
The Sephardic custom is not to observe mourning customs at all when a close relative of a relative dies, whereas the Ashkenazi custom is to observe some mourning laws.
Our teacher, the rabbi, ruled that only when one's father or mother sits shiva for their father or mother, and not for other relatives, and similarly when one's wife sits shiva for her father or mother. But for other relatives, no mourning customs are observed at all.
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