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size=2>From: Eli Turkel <A
href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</A><BR><BR>I am just
reading in one the daily halacha messages that<BR>one should not cut ones
fingernails and toenails on one day<BR>either because it is dangerous or else
(in the name of<BR>rashi yashan - whatever that means) because of "lo yilbash
gever"<BR>(implies a woman can do it).<BR></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>Didnt understand that either - a woman does something reasonable<BR>and
so a man can't do it??</FONT></DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"
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size=2>....To me it sounds like a superstition</DIV>
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<DIV>A woman cuts her fingernails and toenails in preparation for the
mikva but I don't think there's a time when a man /has/ to cut all his
nails all at the same time. BTW I heard in a shiur once that even for a
woman who is preparing for tevilla, it is preferable that she cut
one set of nails before sunset and the other after dark so as to avoid
technically cutting all her nails at the same time.</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree with RET that this sounds like something superstitious, as does
cutting all your nails out of order (and also making sure to gather all your
nail parings lest a pregnant woman step on one and miscarry) but what I have
done all my life I continue doing for fear that it really does make some cosmic
difference somehow.</DIV>
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<DIV>I once heard that cutting your nails out of order is to avoid doing what is
done for the dead, viz, cutting all the nails in order, but I don't know if
there's anything to that. 1. our chevra kadisha does
not cut the nails of the niftar at all -- do other chevras cut nails? and
2. doing something because it is logical is not "doing for the dead" -- cutting
in order is just logical. And so why do we davka cut
our nails out of order? Mystery. (We wash the niftar
starting from the head and going down to the feet, but I never heard anyone say
that when you take a shower you should davka wash in a different order.)</DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
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