From the Ravs Desk: Latest articles and Q&A [Wednesday 14th Shevat 5785]

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Recent Q&A

You may not cut them with a with a vessel [i.e. knife or scissor or nail clipper]. You may do so however using hands or teeth. Thus, if it is really bothering you, you can begin the cutting with the use of a nail clipper, and then remove it using your finger.

11. Cutting nails during Shloshim – Shulchanaruchharav.com

It is not befitting, and is questionably forbidden, to commemorate or celebrate Valentine’s Day both due to its paganist and Christian roots, as well as due to its content. One who desires to give his wife a gift or a card or chocolate can find any other day of the year to do so. Nonetheless, one does not have to go out of his way to make sure to not give a gift or card or chocolate to his wife on February 14 just because it’s Valentine’s Day, and if that’s the day that he happened to have a gift for her then he may give it to her.

A full article will IYH feature soon on this subject!

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11. Cutting nails during Shloshim – Shulchanaruchharav.com

About The Author

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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