Hayom Yom: Sh'vat 13

Yahrzeit is observed on the anniversary of the day of death even the first year, and even if the day of burial was much later than the day of death.1

When my grandfather (R. Shmuel) was seven, his father (the Tzemach Tzedek) once answered him: The kindness and special quality in G-d's making man upright,2 to walk erectly, is that though he walks on the earth he sees the Heavens; not so with beasts that go on all fours; they see only the earth.