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| # The custom is that during elul, one who writes a letter should write a blessing to the recipient that he should be inscribed in the book of life, such as "lishana tova tichatevu vitichatemu." The same is true of email's or the like. <ref> Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 26. [ http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=356&txtSearch=elul Rabbi Eli Mansour's Daily Halacha] adds that one should includes this in emails as well. </ref> | | # The custom is that during elul, one who writes a letter should write a blessing to the recipient that he should be inscribed in the book of life, such as "lishana tova tichatevu vitichatemu." The same is true of email's or the like. <ref> Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 26. [ http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=356&txtSearch=elul Rabbi Eli Mansour's Daily Halacha] adds that one should includes this in emails as well. </ref> |
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| # Some have the custom to fast on the day before rosh hashana. <ref> see Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 20, Halichot Olam 2: page 223 </ref>
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| # Tachanun is not recited on Erev Rosh Hashana in Shacharit, even though during selichot of that morning we do recite the yud gimmel middot and the nefilat apayim. However, tachanun is recited the mincha before erev rosh hashana. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 21, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 46, Shulchan Aruch 581:3, Kaf Hachayim 581:74 </ref>
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| # We do not blow the shofar on erev rosh hashana and if one needs to practice blowing for the holiday, he should do so in a private room. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 21 </ref>
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| # The custom is to dip in a mikveh on erev rosh hashana in honor of rosh hashana, however this isn't required according to the law and therefore a beracha isn't recited and the laws aren't as strict. <ref> Halichot Olam 2: page 225, Moed Likol Chai 12:11. see also Rama 581:4. </ref> If one cannot make it to a mikveh, he should try to spill 9 kav (approximately 12 liters) of water even if in the shower. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 22, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 51, 57. </ref>
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| # A woman within her seven clean days from niddah shouldn't go to the mikveh on erev rosh hashana or erev yom kippur. <ref> Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 59 </ref>
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| # The custom is to do hatarat nedarim on erev rosh hashana and erev yom kippur. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 581:12, Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 22, Yabea Omer OC 2:30, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim page 42 </ref>
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