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Parashat Shemot
The Customary Prohibition of Haircuts During The Three Week’s!
As a result of the mourning observed during the “Three Weeks,” the
Ashkenazi custom is to abstain from shaving and taking haircuts
begin-ning from the Seventeenth of Tammuz until the Tenth of Av.
The Sephardic Custom Nevertheless, the Sephardic custom is not as
stringent and follows the letter of the law established by a
Tannaic enactment (following the de-struction of the Bet Hamikdash)
which is to prohibit taking haircuts and laundering clothing during
the week during which Tisha Be’av falls out. The Rambam and Maran
Ha’Shulchan Aruch rule likewise. The week during which Tisha Be’av
falls out refers to the very week the fast of Tisha Be’av is
observed, beginning from Sunday of that week. For in-stance, if
Tisha Be’av occurs on Wednesday, all of the mourning cus-toms
associated with the week during which Tisha Be’av falls out begin
from the previous Sunday. The Week During Which Tisha Be’av Falls
Out this Year, 5779 This year, 5779, Tisha Be’av falls out on
Shabbat. Therefore, the fast of Tisha Be’av is postponed to the
following day, Sunday. Thus, the laws of the week during which
Tisha Be’av falls out do not apply this year based on the ruling of
Maran Rabbeinu Ovadia Yosef zt”l (Chazon Ova-dia-Arba Ta’aniyot,
page 223) and as we shall explain further, G-d-willing. All of the
customs unique to the week during which Tisha Be’av falls out, such
as taking haircuts and laundering clothing, do not apply this year
besides for the day of Tisha Be’av itself during which it is
cer-tainly forbidden to take a haircut or launder clothing.
Haircuts for Women Regarding a woman taking a haircut during the
week during which Tisha Be’av falls out or during the “Three Weeks”
according to the Ash-kenazi custom, this depends on a related
disagreement among the Poskim, as follows: The Poskim disagree
regarding whether a woman who is in mourning for one of seven
relatives (father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, or
husband) is forbidden to take a haircut just as it is forbidden for
a male mourner or does this prohibition not apply to women.
Halachically speaking, Maran Ha’Shulchan Aruch, whose rulings are
followed by Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jews, writes that the
prohibi-tion to take a haircut does not apply to women. Thus,
immediately fol-lowing the initial seven days of mourning (Shiva),
a woman may take a haircut. Nevertheless, the Rama, whose rulings
are followed by Ashke-nazi Jews, writes that the prohibition to
take a haircut applies to women as well. It therefore seems that
according to Maran Ha’Shulchan Aruch and the Sephardic custom, the
prohibition to take haircuts observed in mourn-ing the destruction
of the Bet Hamikdash does not apply to women ei-ther. However,
according to the Rama and the Ashkenazi custom, women are also
included in this prohibition. Hagaon Harav Moshe Fein-stein zt”l
and other great Poskim rule likewise. On the other hand, there are
Ashkenazi Poskim who write that although women are prohibited to
take haircuts while in actual mourning for a relative,
nevertheless, woman may, in fact, act leniently and take hair-cuts
during the “Three Weeks,” for this (not taking haircuts throughout
the entire “Three Weeks”) is not as much a halachic prohibition
accord-ing to the letter of the law as it is a custom which has
been accepted. However, during the week during which Tisha Be’av
falls out, when it is an actual prohibition to take a haircut based
on the edict of the Sages of the Mishnah and not merely customary,
there is no distinction be-tween men and women. Nevertheless,
halachically speaking, the prohibition of taking hair-cuts does not
apply this year at all according to the Sephardic custom besides
for the day of Tisha Be’av itself. According to the Ashkenazi
custom, however, several great Poskim rule stringently and write
that even women should not take haircuts.
Parashat Pinchas
There is a difference of opinion among the commentaries when the
five daughters of Tzlafchad approach Moshe with their question as
to whether daughters inherit their fathers in the absence of sons.
Their is "give us an inheritance among our father's brothers"
(Bamidbar 27:4). The Yalkut Shimoni learns that the incident took
place in the 2nd year of their being in the desert, immediately
after the sin of the spies. Fol-lowing Aharon's death, they started
traveling in the opposite direction, away from Israel back towards
Egypt. Regardless of the timing, what is most exemplary on the part
of these five righteous women is that at a time when the popular
tide and trend of the nation was "let us appoint a leader and let
us return to Egypt" they requested an inheritance in the Land of
Israel. The Yalkut derives a most important principle from the
above: one who lives in a society that is practicing evil, but has
the integrity and commit-ment to counter the system and do what is
right, not only receives his or her due reward, but also all the
potential reward and blessings that could have been accrued by the
generation. Thus, just as Noach at the time of the flood, Avraham
at the generation of the haflaga (Tower of Babel) and even Lot in
Sedom, received the potential reward of their generations, so to
the daughters of Tzlafchad not only received their reward for their
love of the Land, but received the reward that was po-tentially
awaiting the rest of the generation. The above Yalkut Shimoni
teaches that not every mitzvah is created equally. Often the timing
and environment of the mitzvah, and whether it is popularly
observed with relative ease or requires major sacrifice to rise to
the occasion, will determine the significance of the mitzvah. For
example,today, most persons have little difficulty timing a job
that al-lows them to observe Shabbat. Moreover, the law prohibits
today reli-gious discrimination. But this was not always the
situation in America. Similarly, Kashrut at one time was a major
challenge. It's hard to be-lieve that there really was a time when
kosher pizza, Chinese, Mexican, sushi, and every other cuisine, was
not available. Timing and sacrifice play a significant role. The
mishna in Pirkei Avot (5:3) teaches that Avraham received "sechar
kulam"- the reward that was potentially due to the ten generations,
be-tween Noach and Avraham. Rabbeinu Yonah explains that this does
not mean that he took their sechar in a literal sense, but rather
he that filled the gap that they left in their neglect, and his
living a life of mitzvot accomplished and had the value of all of
theirs' combined. The daughters of Tzlafchad displayed a tremendous
love of Eretz Yis-rael and appreciated its importance in
theirAvodat Hashem and its cen-tral placement for all of Jewish
history afterwards. Baruch Hashem, it is not so difficult to travel
to Ertez Yisrael nowadays and many are blessed to visit multiple
times a year. But even a short stay in and out of Artzeinu HaKodesh
shows HaKadosh Baruch Hu how much we value Eretz Yisrael in our
lives and its importance in our rela-tionship with Hashem. I am
right now zoche to be on a short visit to Eretz Yisrael and I can
tell you I breath a different air when I am here. It offers me a
spiritual recharge that lasts for many months afterwards. I hope
soon to update the Kehillah when I return about my experiences here
and what I believe I have gained by even spending one Shab-bat in
the Land of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yakov. I am excited to see
everyone when I return!
Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Yehuda Moses Rav HaKehillah/Senior
Rabbi
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