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===Sefirat Haomer===
===Sefirat Haomer===
[[Template:Listening to Music during Sefira#pidyon haben|see Pidyon during Sefirat Haomer]]
[[Template:Listening to Music during Sefira#pidyon haben|see Pidyon during Sefirat Haomer]]
===Three Weeks and the Nine Days===
===Three Weeks, Nine Days, and Tisha B'av===
[[Template:Listening to Music during the Three Weeks#pidyon haben| see Pidyon during the Three Weeks]]
[[Template:Listening to Music during the Three Weeks#pidyon haben| see Pidyon during the Three Weeks]]
# Even though meat is customarily not eaten during the Nine Days, if a pidyon haben falls out during that time, meat may be eaten. However, people shouldn't go just so they can eat meat.<ref>Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot vol. 2 pg. 334, Rama 551:10 </ref> They certainly cannot push off the pidyon haben until the Nine Days just to enable eating meat.<ref> Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot vol. 2 pg. 334. Shaare Teshuva 551:33 and Kaf Hachaim 551:160 write that if one did so, people cannot eat meat there</ref>
# Even those who have the custom of not shaving or getting a haircut during the three weeks, the father of the baby boy who is performing the pidyon haben, may shave for the occasion. However, during the week of Tisha B'av, one should not be lenient.<ref>Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot vol. 2 pg. 335</ref>
# Even those who refrain from wearing Shabbat clothing during the week of Tisha B'av, the parents of the child may wear Shabbat clothing for the pidyon haben.<ref>Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot vol. 2 pg. 335, Pidyon Haben Kehilchato 9:10</ref>
# If the pidyon haben falls out on Tisha B'av, some say to do the pidyon near the end of the day, and the meal following the fast.<ref>Shach 305:12, Birkei Yosef 305:16, Mishna Brura 568:20, Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot vol. 2 pg. 335</ref> Others say to do the whole thing after Tisha B'av.<ref> Aruch Hashulchan 305:45</ref>
# If the pidyon haben falls out on Tisha B'av, the father still recites shehecheyanu.<ref>Yalkut Yosef Sova Semachot vol. 2 pg. 336, Shu"t Haelef Lecha Shlomo 349</ref>


==Procedure of the [[Pidyon HaBen]]==
==Procedure of the [[Pidyon HaBen]]==