- Shabbat and Holidays
- Sfirat Ha'omer Customs
Engagement during the Omer
Various Rabbis
4 Nisan 5767
Question
During the counting of the Omer is it permissible to celebrate the engagement of a young Jewish couple at an afternoon tea, no music, no speeches?
Answer
One may celebrate an engagement during the Omer without music. If the party takes place on Yom Ha'atzmaut, Yom Yerushalayim or after Rosh Chodesh Sivan one may play music and have dancing.
Regarding speeches, one may have them during the Omer.
Rabbi Ro'i Margalit
Buying a House During Sefirat HaOmer
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 9, 5779
Omer Days I can shave/cut hair
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 2, 5774
omer
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 4, 5781
Why do we count Sefirat Haomer?
Various Rabbis | Iyyar 15, 5768
Sefira - Talmidim of Rabbi Akiva
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 28 Iyyar 5763
cutting nails during omer
Rabbi David Sperling | Nisan 29, 5773
Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.
Lubavitcher Rebbe the Mashiach?
Tammuz 4, 5774
changing edah
Sivan 13, 5775
Lessons from Protective Edge
Tammuz 23, 5774
Day dates
Kislev 15, 5778
Cooking dairy in meat pan
Rabbi David Sperling | Adar I 28, 5774
’Bein Ha’arbayim’
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 12 Av 5764
Kashering a dishwasher
Rabbi David Sperling | Cheshvan 23, 5778
Hair covering for unmarried women who are not virgins
Rabbi David Sperling | Adar II 3, 5774
Bracha for Dates
Rabbi Eliezer S. Weisz | 3 Adar 5764
Mezzuzah for Non Jew
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 18, 5773
Implications of Speech
Rabbi Daniel Kirsch | Tammuz 4, 5781
Police and stopping cars on shabbat
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 5, 5781
are water drops kosher
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Sivan 27, 5781
The Sanhedrin
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tammuz 5, 5781
Can the opinion of anti-Zionist rabbis be "wrong"?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 3, 5781
