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# The Sephardic custom on a year that Lag BaOmer falls out on Friday is that one may cut one's hair on Friday morning out of respect for [[Shabbat]] and if one is unable to cut one's hair on Friday morning, it's permissible to cut one's hair on Thursday night after [[Tzet HaKochavim]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 431-2) </ref> | # The Sephardic custom on a year that Lag BaOmer falls out on Friday is that one may cut one's hair on Friday morning out of respect for [[Shabbat]] and if one is unable to cut one's hair on Friday morning, it's permissible to cut one's hair on Thursday night after [[Tzet HaKochavim]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 431-2) </ref> | ||
# According to Ashkenazim, if there's a pressing need women may cut their hair during Sefirat HaOmer.<ref>Sh"t Igrot Moshe YD 2:137. See [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.thehalacha.com/attach/Volume5/Issue8.pdf&pli=1 Halachically Speaking article on Sefirah].</ref> According to Sephardim, women may cut their hair during the Sefirah.<Ref>Chazon Ovadyah (Yom Tov pg 261)</ref> | # According to Ashkenazim, if there's a pressing need women may cut their hair during Sefirat HaOmer.<ref>Sh"t Igrot Moshe YD 2:137. See [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.thehalacha.com/attach/Volume5/Issue8.pdf&pli=1 Halachically Speaking article on Sefirah].</ref> According to Sephardim, women may cut their hair during the Sefirah.<Ref>Chazon Ovadyah (Yom Tov pg 261)</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> | # 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> | ||
# It is permissible to tweeze eyebrows or eyelashes. <ref> Bein Pesach Lishavuot page 241 quoting Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rav Shmuel Wosner. </ref> | # It is permissible to tweeze eyebrows or eyelashes. <ref> Bein Pesach Lishavuot page 241 quoting Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rav Shmuel Wosner. </ref> | ||
# It is permissible to comb hair even if some hairs will be removed in the process. <ref> Mishna Berura 551:20 </ref> | # It is permissible to comb hair even if some hairs will be removed in the process. <ref> Mishna Berura 551:20 </ref> | ||
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# If something occurs that would require a shehecheyanu, one should recite it as usual. <ref> Mishna Berura 493:2. The minhag not to is quoted in the Eliyahu Zuta 493:1 quoting Rabbeinu Yerucham and Leket Yosher page 97 quoting the Terumat Hadeshen. </ref> | # If something occurs that would require a shehecheyanu, one should recite it as usual. <ref> Mishna Berura 493:2. The minhag not to is quoted in the Eliyahu Zuta 493:1 quoting Rabbeinu Yerucham and Leket Yosher page 97 quoting the Terumat Hadeshen. </ref> | ||
# It is preferable not to wear new clothing which would require one to make a [[Shehecheyanu]] during the Sefira, however, if there's a need one should do it on a [[Shabbat]], at a Simcha of a Bar Mitzvah or Brit Milah. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 433). Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Aleihu Lo Yibol 286 and Shalmei Moed page 441 rules that it is completely permissible to buy new clothing if it is not your minhag not to. See Taamei Haminhagim page 251. </ref> The accepted Sephardic minhag is to make [[Shehecheyanu]] as usual. <Ref> Maamer Mordechai of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (Sefirat HaOmer #55) </ref> If one thought it was prohibited to recite shehecheyanu but later found out that it is not, doesn't need a hatarat nedarim to start saying shehecheyanu during sefira. <ref> Yechave Daat 1:24. </ref> | # It is preferable not to wear new clothing which would require one to make a [[Shehecheyanu]] during the Sefira, however, if there's a need one should do it on a [[Shabbat]], at a Simcha of a Bar Mitzvah or [[Brit Milah]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 433). Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach Aleihu Lo Yibol 286 and Shalmei Moed page 441 rules that it is completely permissible to buy new clothing if it is not your minhag not to. See Taamei Haminhagim page 251. </ref> The accepted Sephardic minhag is to make [[Shehecheyanu]] as usual. <Ref> Maamer Mordechai of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu (Sefirat HaOmer #55) </ref> If one thought it was prohibited to recite shehecheyanu but later found out that it is not, doesn't need a hatarat nedarim to start saying shehecheyanu during sefira. <ref> Yechave Daat 1:24. </ref> | ||
# It is permissible to eat a new fruit which would require one to make a [[Shehecheyanu]] during the Sefira. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 434), Rav Elyashiv quoted in Mivakshei Torah 19 </ref> | # It is permissible to eat a new fruit which would require one to make a [[Shehecheyanu]] during the Sefira. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 434), Rav Elyashiv quoted in Mivakshei Torah 19 </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> | # It is permissible to move into a new apartment and make the requisite [[Shehecheyanu]] during the Sefira. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 434) </ref> | ||
