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 # For someone who is clinically depressed to the point that there is a concern of suicide or just losing one's mind it is permitted to use a phone to call him to cheer him up and check on him. However, if there's a way to check the patient before Pesach one should do so.<Ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-2-Mar-25-2020.pdf Rav Herschel Schachter (teshuva Adar 29 5780)]. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgm9gww30vkgw7s/_Rabbi_Willig_Shailos_03_25_2020_.mp3?dl=0 Rav Willig (min 24)] agrees that we violate Shabbat for someone who is suicidal but they can use the phone.</ref> A person should check with his rabbi in each case.
+==[[Sefirat Haomer]]==
+#If someone couldn't get a hair cut because the barbers were all closed before Pesach, then if one reached the point when it very noticeably long and people would tell him to get a haircut he can take a haircut during [[Sefira]]. Today it can be estimated that if it has been more than 2 months since his last haircut he can take a haircut during the Sefira.<ref>https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/950659/rabbi-hershel-schachter/piskei-corona-16-haircuts-on-chol-hamoed-and-sefira/ Rav Schachter (Piskei Corona #16)</ref>
 ==Mikveh==