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==Prohibited practices during the Sefirat HaOmer== | ==Prohibited practices during the Sefirat HaOmer== | ||
The practice is to observe certain practices of mourning during the Sefirah because the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva died during this time. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 493:1 based on gemara in Yevamot 62b. </ref> | The practice is to observe certain practices of mourning during the Sefirah because the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva died during this time. <ref> Tur and Shulchan Aruch 493:1 based on gemara in Yevamot 62b. </ref> | ||
===Getting Married=== | ===Getting Married=== | ||
# The Sephardic custom is not to get married during the Sefira until the 34th day in the morning. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 428) </ref> | # The Sephardic custom is not to get married during the Sefira until the 34th day in the morning. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 428) </ref> | ||
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# If one has a Brit Milah during the Sefira, the father of the baby, the Mohel, and the Tzandak may cut their hair that day. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 432) </ref> | # If one has a Brit Milah during the Sefira, the father of the baby, the Mohel, and the Tzandak may cut their hair that day. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 432) </ref> | ||
===Shaving=== | ===Shaving=== | ||
# There is a minhag not to shave during Sefirat Haomer. <ref> Tur 493 </ref> Some authorities permitted someone who shaves daily after having waited 3 or 5 days of not shaving to shave during the Sefira. <ref> Rabbi Herschel Schachter quoting rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik in Nefesh Harav page 191 says that since all customs have to be based on something, it would have to be that the mourning of sefirat haomer is parallel to the mourning during the year of having lost a parent. Therefore since the halacha says that it is permissible to shave during the year once | # There is a minhag not to shave during Sefirat Haomer. <ref> Tur 493 says there is a custom in come places "lo lihistaper." Masekhet Semachot (7:11) says that lihistaper means to cut head, mustache, beard and all other hair. </ref> Some authorities permitted someone who shaves daily after having waited 3 or 5 days of not shaving to shave during the Sefira. <ref> Rabbi Herschel Schachter quoting rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik in Nefesh Harav page 191 says that since all customs have to be based on something, it would have to be that the mourning of sefirat haomer is parallel to the mourning during the year of having lost a parent, as none of the halachot that don't apply after thirty days of having lost a parent apply during sefira. Therefore since the halacha says that it is permissible to shave during the year once one's friends scold him to tell him that his hair is too long ("ad she-yig'aru bo chaveirav": Moed Katan 22b, Rambam Hilkhot Evel 6:3), it would be permissible during the omer also. See also [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/733780/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Hilchos_Chol_Hamoed Rav Hershel Schachter] (min 107-110). Rav Aharon Lictenstein http://vbm-torah.org/archive/halak65/24halak.htm says that it is even an obligation to shave for kavod shabbat on Friday. </ref> | ||
# It's proper to keep the minhag of not shaving until the 34th day in the morning, however, someone who is bothered greatly by not shaving some say that he may shave on Rosh Chodesh Iyar and some say on Friday. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 431) </ref> | # It's proper to keep the minhag of not shaving until the 34th day in the morning, however, someone who is bothered greatly by not shaving some say that he may shave on Rosh Chodesh Iyar and some say on Friday. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 431) </ref> | ||
