Ask the Rav:1) Eating Mezonos before Maariv 2) cutting hand and toenails on Friday and on Thursday night-Friday

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  1. Question: [Thursday 18th Mar Cheshvan, 5781]

May I eat a bowl of cereal or pasta prior to Davening Maariv if I do not have a set minyan that I Daven with?

 

Answer:

One may eat up until 55 grams of Mezonos foods prior to Davening Maariv even if he does not have a Shomer or set minyan that he Davens by. It is forbidden to him to eat more than this amount of Mezonos

Sources: Michaber 232:3 regarding Mincha and the same applies to Maariv; Admur 286:3 and M”A 286:17 regarding Musaf;; P”M 431 A”A 4 regarding Bedikas Chameitz, recorded also in Mishna Berurah 431:6.

  1. Question: [Friday 19th Mar Cheshvan, 5781]

May one cut both his hand and toenails on Erev Shabbos if he forgot to do so before hand?

 

Answer:

One should not do so. In such a case one should cut specifically his hand nails.

Sources: See Admur 260:2; Mateh Efraim 625:14-Alef Lamateh 21; Piskeiy Teshuvos 260:8

  1. Question: [Friday 19th Mar Cheshvan, 5781]

May one cut his toenails on Thursday night and his hand nails on Friday?

 

Answer:

This matter is under debate and hence is best to be avoided. Nonetheless, if one forgot to cut than earlier, then he may cut his toenails on Thursday night and his hand nails the next day.

Sources: See Ketzos Hashulchan 73 footnote 4; Piskeiy Teshuvos 260 footnote 84

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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