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==Cemetery== | ==Cemetery== | ||
# Some poskim write that a pregnant woman should not go to a cemetery.<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 10:42:2, Halichot Bat Yisrael 13:18 </ref> Others are lenient.<ref>[https://www.kof-k.org/articles/021909100243Doc13.pdf Rabbi Yisroel Belsky]</ref> | # Some poskim write that a pregnant woman should not go to a cemetery.<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 10:42:2, Halichot Bat Yisrael 13:18 </ref> Others are lenient.<ref>[https://www.kof-k.org/articles/021909100243Doc13.pdf Rabbi Yisroel Belsky]. Chazon Ovadia v. 1 p. 313 is lenient for a pregnant woman to go to the cemetery (based on Roke'ach 366, Birkei Yosef 343, Yavetz 2:177). He writes it is only a chumra of some women that they don't go to the cemetery when they are pregnant but they would go to the cemetery for a Yehrzeit so that they don't feel left out. As a proof he cites the Piskei Trumat Hadeshen 132. </ref> | ||
==Kvater at a Bris== | ==Kvater at a Bris== | ||
# Common practice is that a pregnant woman who is showing should not serve as the kvater at a bris.<ref>[https://www.kof-k.org/articles/021909100243Doc13.pdf Halachically Speaking] </ref> | # Common practice is that a pregnant woman who is showing should not serve as the kvater at a bris.<ref>[https://www.kof-k.org/articles/021909100243Doc13.pdf Halachically Speaking] </ref> | ||
Revision as of 04:26, 5 November 2018
Cemetery
Kvater at a Bris
- Common practice is that a pregnant woman who is showing should not serve as the kvater at a bris.[3]
Fasting
see Fast Days: Pregnant or Nursing Women
Inducing Labor
- One should not induce labor unnecessarily, or simply for convenience. It is permissible if it is necessary for medical purposes. One should consult with a rabbi.[4]
Links
- The Expectant Mother on Halachically Speaking
Sources
- ↑ Minchat Yitzchak 10:42:2, Halichot Bat Yisrael 13:18
- ↑ Rabbi Yisroel Belsky. Chazon Ovadia v. 1 p. 313 is lenient for a pregnant woman to go to the cemetery (based on Roke'ach 366, Birkei Yosef 343, Yavetz 2:177). He writes it is only a chumra of some women that they don't go to the cemetery when they are pregnant but they would go to the cemetery for a Yehrzeit so that they don't feel left out. As a proof he cites the Piskei Trumat Hadeshen 132.
- ↑ Halachically Speaking
- ↑ Rabbi Eli Mansour
