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==When to Cut One's Nails== | ==When to Cut One's Nails== | ||
# It is interesting to note that whenever the Arizal would cut his hair he would do so before midday.<ref> [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin) quoting Ben Ish Chai, Lech Lecha. </ref> | # It is interesting to note that whenever the Arizal would cut his hair he would do so before midday.<ref> [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin) quoting Ben Ish Chai, Lech Lecha. </ref> | ||
# It is recommended not to cut one’s hair or nails on [[Rosh Chodesh]].<ref> [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin) quoting Rabbi Yehuda Hachassid 48</ref> | # It is recommended not to cut one’s hair or nails on [[Rosh Chodesh]].<ref> [http://www.eichlers.com/Product/Books/Halachah_-_Jewish_Law/General_Issues/Amot-Shel-Halacha---Halachic-Insights---The-Dalet-Amot-Halacha-Series:-1-_H028-3.html Amot Shel Halacha] (by Rabbi Ari Enkin) quoting Rabbi Yehuda Hachassid 48</ref> Sephardim do not have this practice.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 260:2</ref> | ||
# One should arrange for one's hair and nails to be cut on Erev [[Shabbat]].<ref> Shulchan Aruch 260:1 </ref> | # One should arrange for one's hair and nails to be cut on Erev [[Shabbat]].<ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 260:1 </ref> | ||
# Ashkenazim have a practice to cut one's toenails on Thursday and fingernails on Friday or Thursday night<ref>Eshel Avraham Mbuchatch 260:1 writes that the night follows the the next day for cutting fingernails on Thursday night.</ref> | # Ashkenazim have a practice to cut one's toenails on Thursday and fingernails on Friday or Thursday night.<ref>Eshel Avraham Mbuchatch 260:1 writes that the night follows the the next day for cutting fingernails on Thursday night.</ref> There is also a practice specifically not to cut fingernails on Thursday.<Ref>Magen Avraham (Introduction to 260), Mishna Brurah 260:6</ref> Sephardim don't have these practices.<ref>Or Letzion 2:47:4, Yalkut Yosef 260:3</ref> | ||
==How to Cut One's Nails== | ==How to Cut One's Nails== | ||
