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• Shortly after midday on Friday afternoon, the mourners pray Minchah and arise from their low stools and begin their Shabbat preparations.2
• Normal Shabbat finery is worn.
• The mourner prays with everyone else in the synagogue on Shabbat. He does not lead the services, but he does recite the mourner's Kaddish.
While all public displays of mourning are forbidden, non-conspicuous laws of mourning remain in effect
• Marital relations are forbidden.
• Torah study is prohibited. However, if one regularly attends a Torah class on Shabbat, then this Shabbat should not be an exception.
• The mourner should not receive an Aliyah on Shabbat (unless he is the only Kohen or Levite in the synagogue).
• Preferably, the Saturday night Maariv should be prayed in the mourner's home. Immediately after Shabbat, the mourner recites "Baruch hamavdil bein kodesh l'chol" ("Blessed be He who makes a distinction between the holy [day of Shabbat] and the mundane [weekdays]"), removes his leather shoes and Shabbat clothing, and dons his torn mourner's garments.
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