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# It is permissible to move into a new apartment and make the requisite Shehecheyanu during the Sefira. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 434) </ref> | # It is permissible to move into a new apartment and make the requisite Shehecheyanu during the Sefira. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 434) </ref> | ||
===Listening to music=== | ===Listening to music=== | ||
# It is forbidden to listen to music during the Sefira <ref> Iggerot Moshe OC 1:166, 2:137, Minhag Yisrael Torah 493:8, Aruch Hashulchan 493:2 | # It is forbidden to listen to music during the Sefira <ref> Iggerot Moshe OC 1:166, 2:137, Minhag Yisrael Torah 493:8, Aruch Hashulchan 493:2, Yechave Daat 3:30 based on a Magen Avraham that prohibits dancing during sefira because the two come together. Rav Mordechai Willig quoted in [[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735746/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Music_During_Sefira]] says that music is not necessarily forbidden, the prohition was only placed on things that lead to excessibe joy, which music doesn't necessarily accomplish. </ref> Some poskim say that even if it's not live music, <ref> Az Nidberu 8:58, Iggerot Moshe OC 1:167, Tzitz Eliezer 15:33, Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 434, Maamar Mordechai of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu Sefirat Haomer #40. Chelkat Yaakov 1:62 argues that a device which didn't exist at the time of the decree cannot be included. In his article at [[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735746/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Music_During_Sefira]] Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz says that this argument can only be made for music in general, but during sefira this would not apply because there was never a formal ban placed on music specifically during sefira. See [[http://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Listening_to_Music]] for the discussion about music during the year. </ref> and this practice should be kept until at least the 34th of the Omer. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 434), Maamer Mordechai of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (Sefirat HaOmer #40), </ref> Some poskim even prohibit listening to a Capella music. <ref> Shevet Halevi 8:127, Salmat Chaim 4:21. see http://matzav.com/p%E2%80%99sak-from-rav-yisroel-belsky-and-rav-shlomo-miller-on-acappella-music-during-sefirah-2 that Rav Yisrael Belsky and Rav Shlomo Miller differentiate between different types of a cappella, only permitting choirs which simply sound like a group of people singing and nothing more. Rav Binyamin Silber in Az Nidberu 8:58 discussing music during the year says that a recorded voice is considered like an instrument. </ref> | ||
#According to some poskim slow music that would not lead to dancing such as slow classical music can be listened to. <ref> [[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735746/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Music_During_Sefira]] quotes Sefer Eleh Heim Moadai quoting Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg and Rav Eliyahu Schlesinger. </ref> | |||
# If not listening to recorded music will result in depression, even the stringent authorities would permit it. <ref> Hilchot Chag B’chag p.63, Halichot Shlomo, Moadim 2:11:14. </ref> | # If not listening to recorded music will result in depression, even the stringent authorities would permit it. <ref> Hilchot Chag B’chag p.63, Halichot Shlomo, Moadim 2:11:14. </ref> | ||
# If one is reliant on playing live music to make an income, he is permitted to. <ref> Iggerot Moshe OC 3:87. </ref> | # If one is reliant on playing live music to make an income, he is permitted to. <ref> Iggerot Moshe OC 3:87. </ref> | ||
