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Can You Cut Your Nails In the Week of Tisha B’Av To Remove Contact Lenses {Shaila of the Day #1}

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein discusses a halachic question about cutting nails during the week of Tisha B'Av.

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  1. 0:01Okay, friends. For the next segment, I want to share with you a shaila I received…
  2. 0:31Shabbos. She forgot to cut her nails uh for Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim Tisha B'Av. Uh…
  3. 1:03That's the shaila. So, the first thing is what I'm wondering is there are millions of…
  4. 1:35Now, if that then it's going to look it's not going to look um appropriate to…
  5. 2:06realize. And that is nowhere in the Gemara does it say you can't cut your nails,…
  6. 3:07Tzion says the Taz assers, the Magen Avraham matirs. From the Mishna Berurah, it would seem…
  7. 3:37in the nine days, and it's mutar to cut your nails in Shisha Be Shivat Tish'a…
  8. 4:08Because you're better off having short nails for washing your hands for bread. So I want…
  9. 4:38because of the mission the correct thing is don't have long nails. Why? For the so…
  10. 5:08Not out of the compelling nature of the but it's I would call it a minor…

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