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This is explained clearly in Biur Halacha 493 D”H Yesh Nohagim and [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/714562/Rabbi_Josh_Flug/The_Mourning_Period_Of_Sefirat_Ha'omer Rabbi Flug's article on Sefirat HaOmer]. </ref> | This is explained clearly in Biur Halacha 493 D”H Yesh Nohagim and [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/714562/Rabbi_Josh_Flug/The_Mourning_Period_Of_Sefirat_Ha'omer Rabbi Flug's article on Sefirat HaOmer]. </ref> | ||
# A third practice is to mourn 33 not consecutive days during the Omer. <ref> | # A third practice is to mourn 33 not consecutive days during the Omer. <ref> | ||
Bet Yosef 493:3 quotes the Ri Ibn Shoiv who records another tradition that Rabbi Akiva’s students only died on the 33 days during the Sefira when there’s no [[Tachanun]], which are the 7 days of Pesach, 7 Shabbatot, and 2 days of Rosh Chodesh. Based on this tradition, Sh"t Igrot Moshe 1:159 writes, there is a minhag to mourn for 33 non-consecutive days during the sefira. </ref>This practice is followed by some Ashkenazim. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 489:5 </ref> | Bet Yosef 493:3 quotes the Ri Ibn Shoiv who records another tradition that Rabbi Akiva’s students only died on the 33 days during the Sefira when there’s no [[Tachanun]], which are the 7 days of Pesach, 7 Shabbatot, and 2 days of [[Rosh Chodesh]]. Based on this tradition, Sh"t Igrot Moshe 1:159 writes, there is a minhag to mourn for 33 non-consecutive days during the sefira. </ref>This practice is followed by some Ashkenazim. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 489:5 </ref> | ||
## Some observe this practice by mourning from the day after [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar until Erev Shavuot excluding Lag BaOmer. <Ref>Magan Avraham 489:5, Mishna Brurah 493:15 </ref> | ## Some observe this practice by mourning from the day after [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar until Erev Shavuot excluding Lag BaOmer. <Ref>Magan Avraham 489:5, Mishna Brurah 493:15 </ref> | ||
##Some observe this practice by mourning from the first day of [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar until the third day before Shavuot. <Ref>Rama 493:3, Magan Avraham 489:5 </ref> | ##Some observe this practice by mourning from the first day of [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar until the third day before Shavuot. <Ref>Rama 493:3, Magan Avraham 489:5 </ref> | ||
## Some observe this practice by mourning from after Issru Chag until [[Rosh Chodesh]] Sivan excluding the two days of [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar and Lag BaOmer. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 489:15 quoting the Siddur Derech Chaim </ref> | ## Some observe this practice by mourning from after Issru Chag until [[Rosh Chodesh]] Sivan excluding the two days of [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar and Lag BaOmer. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 489:15 quoting the Siddur Derech Chaim </ref> | ||
## Some observe this practice by mourning all the days of the Omer expect for [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar and Sivan. <Ref> Sh”t Igrot Moshe 1:159 explains that the reason for this minhag is that it holds that the students of Rabbi Akiva died on all the days between [[Pesach]] and Shavuot except for the 16 days when one can not say [[Tachanun]] (7 days of Pesach, 6 [[Shabbat]]ot, 3 days of Rosh Chodesh) and so the minhag forbids getting married and cutting hair the entire Sefira except for [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar and Sivan (and [[Pesach]] and [[Shabbat]] are already forbidden to get married). </ref> | ## Some observe this practice by mourning all the days of the Omer expect for [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar and Sivan. <Ref> Sh”t Igrot Moshe 1:159 explains that the reason for this minhag is that it holds that the students of Rabbi Akiva died on all the days between [[Pesach]] and Shavuot except for the 16 days when one can not say [[Tachanun]] (7 days of Pesach, 6 [[Shabbat]]ot, 3 days of [[Rosh Chodesh]]) and so the minhag forbids getting married and cutting hair the entire Sefira except for [[Rosh Chodesh]] Iyar and Sivan (and [[Pesach]] and [[Shabbat]] are already forbidden to get married). </ref> | ||
# A fourth minhag followed by some is to observe sefira, in regards to not cutting one's hair, for the entire duration of the sefira from Erev [[Pesach]] until Erev Shavuot.<ref>Arizal quoted by Shaarei Teshuva 493:8</ref> | # A fourth minhag followed by some is to observe sefira, in regards to not cutting one's hair, for the entire duration of the sefira from Erev [[Pesach]] until Erev Shavuot.<ref>Arizal quoted by Shaarei Teshuva 493:8</ref> | ||
# It is permitted for a wife to observe her family’s mourning period, as long as her husband does not object. <ref> Rav Doniel Neustadt Daily Halacha Discussion page 219 </ref> | # It is permitted for a wife to observe her family’s mourning period, as long as her husband does not object. <ref> Rav Doniel Neustadt Daily Halacha Discussion page 219 </ref> | ||
