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<font size=3>At 01:07 PM 5/7/2015, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Thu, May 07, 2015 at
10:01:44AM -0400, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:<br>
: I have to admit that I simply do not understand the goings on
shown<br>
: which I looked at last night, and am now looking at a bit.<br><br>
: The Sefardim hold one is not allowed to take a haircut the entire<br>
: 33rd day...<br>
: Ashkenazim hold "micktzas ha Yom K'kulo," when it comes to
the last<br>
: day of aveilus for someone sitting shiva...<br><br>
Both of which are minhagim, not halakhah. Also, the minhag is not to<br>
get one's hair cut, rather than cutting someone else's hair, which
would<br>
mean you're worried about whether it applies to 3 year
olds.</font></blockquote><br>
Indeed, I think one should be. <br><br>
Truth be told my mother, A"H, told me that once a child
is at least one year old and can say a few words, then his hair
gets cut. This is what I did with my sons, and I am sure it
is an old minhag. <br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Minhagim evolve,
that's what they do. If the Peri Eitz Chaim records the<br>
Ari's position that it's apprpriate to not just refrain from
mourning<br>
on Lag baOmer but to celebrate it, there is sufficient motive -- in<br>
the eyes of many. Of course, that "many" wouldn't include the
Yekke<br>
qehilos. And I had a choice of bonfires at yeshivos gedolos to go to<br>
last night, had I wanted to. Litta joining in is defintely
new.</font></blockquote><br>
Indeed, this is where the New Religion is coming from. Years
ago someone asked Rav S. Schwab, ZT"L, about certain
things that certain chassidishe women do when they are pregnant and if
they were valid. His forceful reply was, "My mother
never knew about such things, my grandmother never knew about such
things, and my great grandmother never knew about such
things. These people are making up a religion!!!!!"<br><br>
I am not comfortable with people making up a religion, particularly since
RSRH says definitively the Judaism is not a religion, to the New
Religion is not Judaism by definition.<br><br>
<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>The Radbaz, R'
David b Shelomo ibn Zimra was among the gerushei Sefarad,<br>
who ended up in Tzefas in 1513 and eventually end up in Egypt where<br>
he was RY (he taught the Shitah Mequbetzes, R' Betzalel Ashkenazi)<br>
and ABD. But the version of the minhag he recorded would not pose
the<br>
question -- observe the first "half" of the omer, and then a
haircut a<br>
week before Shavuos isn't a problem.</font></blockquote><br>
The MB points out that the minhag in Vilna was to start the restrictions
of Sefirah on the first day of Rosh Chodesh Iyar and then they end in the
morning of the first of the 3 days before Shavuous. I took a
haircut shortly before Rosh Chodesh Iyar. There were no crowds to
contend with and I had no waiting.<br><br>
This morning I trimmed my mustache and the hair that grows under my neck
below my beard at shortly after sunrise. <br><br>
I will take a haircut on 3 or 4 Sivan. Again, there will be no crowds to
contend with.<br><br>
This has worked and continues to work for me. YL<br><br>
PS. My wife has asked more than once, " How can they
observe the aveilus restrictions of Sefirah during Pesach when it is a
Yom Tov?" My reply is, "I do not
know."<br><br>
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