Ask the Rabbi
- Shabbat and Holidays
- Sfirat Ha'omer
- Sfirat Ha'omer Customs
Question
Can one shave and listen to music on rosh codesh iyar if you keep sfirat haomer from pesach to lag b’omer? Yom Haatzmaut?
Answer
Only on Yom Ha'atzmaut you can shave and listen to music. On the other days it is forbidden.
Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger
Cutting hair after lag bomer
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 17, 5772
woman having haircut in honour of Yom Haatzmaut
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 8, 5774
S’fira and shaving
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | Sivan 1, 5769
