Yeshiva
Beit Midrash
- Shabbat and Holidays
- Jewish Holidays
- Sefirat Haomer
24,000 students, we observe 33 days of
semi-mourning – when joyous, public festivities
are kept to a minimum - between Pesach & Shavuot
(because the students died for 33 days, until the
fever broke). The 3 prevalent customs are:
1) From the start of the Omer (this Tuesday night) until Lag B'Omer;
2) From 2 Iyar until Erev Shavuot;
3) From Rosh Chodesh Iyar until the 3rd day
before Shavuot (shloshet y’mai hagbala).
Any of the 3 customs are acceptable & they may be
changed from year to year if so desired, says Rav
Moshe Feinstein. He adds that guests who are
invited to a wedding or to the Sheva Brachot
following - that falls within their minhag of
Sefira restrictions – may attend the Simcha &
still maintain their personal count without
interruption, as the wedding is considered a
"personal Yom Tov" for the Chatan & Kallah, who
"draw after them" friends & family, regardless of the Minhag they may follow.
Peninei Halakha 5. Weddings and Engagements during the Omer Period
Chapter 3: Customs of Mourning during the Omer Period
Rabbis in Midrash
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
