Q. What is the traditional proper way for a Chevra Kadisha to comply with Zain Adar?
A. There are different Minhagim and traditions particular to different communities and groups. Most have the custom of fasting and saying a special prayer or “Tikun for the Seventh of Adar.”
It is also customary in many communities for the Chevrah Kadisha to observe the seventh of Adar as a day of gathering for its members. A festive banquet is held and for some the entire community participates. Rabbonim and community leaders attend and Gaba’im and other leading members are appointed.
Changing times may demand new rulings and regulations that have to be compatible with Halacha to be discusses and adopted for the coming year.
Some also eat fish, since the gematria of ?? is ‘? and the ??? of Adar is the fish
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a