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Order of the sacrifices

Reciting the order of the Ketoret

Blessing on perfume, praying on the bus, opening packaging on Shabbat, praying with a bad odor

Reading the Megillah

Hearing the Megillah Reading via Broadcast

Halaki - first haircut of age 3

Haircut for a baby girl and a baby boy

Fasting for an ill person

Fast of Esther with a throat infection

"Bosis" on Shabbos

Caring for body and soul

Obligation to go to the protected room during a siren

Forbidden activities on Shabbos – the 39 melachos

Shabbat – Closing a bottle that wounds the fingers

Forbidden activities on Shabbos – the 39 melachos

Using Mouthwash on Shabbat

Sick, weak, giving birth, breastfeeding

Fast of Esther – iron deficiency and inflammation

Thickness of the stockings

Mourning for a person who requested that his body be cremated

Ta'anit Esther – Diabetes

Giving half a Shekel

Machatzit Hashekel

Reading the Megillah

Requests in prayer; reciting Shema in the middle of Pesukei DeZimra and the blessings of Shema; a resident of a walled city who went to a regular city; concern of pikuach nefesh on Shabbat