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==Festive Meals on Rosh Chodesh== | |||
# One should add on to one's meal with at least one food more than usual. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 419:1, Mishna Brurah 419:2 </ref> | |||
# One can fulfill this with any type of special food, however, it's praiseworthy to do so with bread and make [[Birkat HaMazon]] (with [[Yaaleh VeYavo]]). <ref> Mishna Brurah 419:1. Kaf Hachaim 419:2 quotes the Rabbenu Yahonatan who holds that there's an obligation to have a bread meal on a Rosh Chodesh and a Yareh Shamayim would be strict for him. He concludes that it is a nice practice to make hamotzei with two loaves of bread. Also, in Kaf Hachaim 419:5 he quotes the Chida who says that there's an obligation to honor Rosh Chodesh and infers that one should have a meal on Rosh Chodesh in a honorable manner like one would for Shabbat or Yom Tov. Yalkut Yosef 418:8 writes that someone who has a bread meal is praiseworthy. Chazon Ovadia Chanuka p. 256 disagrees with the Kaf Hachaim that there's an obligation to have a meal with bread.</ref> | |||
# One should add on to one's meal with at least one food more than usual. <ref> | # One fulfills one's obligation with the meal of the day and it's not necessary to have a meal also at night. <ref> Mishna Brurah 419:2, Chazon Ovadia Chanuka p. 256 </ref> | ||
# One can fulfill this with any type of special food, however, it's praiseworthy to do so with bread and make Birkat HaMazon (with [[Yaaleh VeYavo]]). <ref> Mishna Brurah 419:1 </ref> | ==Fasting on [[Rosh Chodesh]]== | ||
# One fulfills one's obligation with the meal of the day and it's not necessary to have a meal also at night. <ref> Mishna Brurah 419:2 </ref> | # It's forbidden to fast on [[Rosh Chodesh]]. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 418:1 </ref> | ||
# Some have the minhag to fast on Erev [[Rosh Chodesh]] (the day before [[Rosh Chodesh]]) and even those who don't fast should do [[teshuva]] on this day since it's the last of the month (similar to Erev [[Rosh Hashana]]). <ref> Mishna Brurah 417:4 </ref> | |||
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# It is a nice practice to wear special clothing for Rosh Chodesh.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 419:6 citing the Or Tzadikim 31:2, Machzik Bracha 419:2</ref> | |||
==Working on [[Rosh Chodesh]]== | |||
# It's permissible to do work on [[Rosh Chodesh]]. In some places the minhag is for women not to work on [[Rosh Chodesh]] and it's a praiseworthy minhag. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 417:1 </ref> | |||
==Cutting Hair and Nails on Rosh Chodesh== | |||
# There is an Ashkenazic minhag not to cut one's hair, shave, or cut one's nails on Rosh Chodesh even if it falls out on Friday.<ref>Mishna Brurah 260:7 writes that there is a minhag to be strict for Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid's will not to cut one's hair or nails on Rosh Chodesh even if it is a Friday.</ref> Sephardim aren't concerned for this.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 260:2</ref> | |||
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