Cutting Nails During the Thirty Days of Mourning by Changing the Type of Scissors
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Question
Is it permissible to cut nails during the thirty days of mourning using scissors that are not intended for nails but for cutting paper?
Answer
It is forbidden, and a change must be made using the mouth or hands, not by the type of scissors.
Source
Tosafot, Tractate Moed Katan, page 18, side A, D"H "and in gnustri it is forbidden." "Explanation in Aruch that it is a tool designed to remove nails, and that is its name, and from the expression "in gnustri it is forbidden" it implies that he permitted both with a razor and scissors, not only with teeth. However, in the Gemara, Rabbi Yochanan is said to have removed them with his teeth, implying that only with teeth is it permitted, etc. Rabbeinu Tam explained that just as it is permitted with teeth, so it is permitted to remove nails [with this] from the other hand, as all this is considered a change regarding Shabbat in Tractate Shabbat, page 94:)."
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