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Words of Torah without a Kippah during a Haircut

Blessing on Fried Bread

Blessing on a Cake with Ice Cream on Top

Eating Before Tashlumin Prayer

Donning tefillin

Kaddish between putting on the hand tefillin and the head tefillin

Donning tefillin

Speaking while putting on Rabbeinu Tam's Tefillin

Funeral and Burial

Tearing for a Child Whose Brother Passed Away Under Twelve Months Old

Obligation of Tearing at the Western Wall

The Form of Tearing at the Western Wall

Tearing Garments Today for the Ruined Cities of Judah and Jerusalem

Calculation of Thirty Days for Tearing at the Western Wall

Tearing at the Western Wall when there within thirty days and did not tear

Tearing at the Western Wall for a Minor

The First Year after Death

Haircut during the thirty days for livelihood

The First Year after Death

Rebuke for Haircut Within Thirty Days