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Which part of sefirah do you keep?

Right after Pesach until Lag Be'omer

55%

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From Rosh Chodesh Iyar until 3 days before Shavuos

44%

[ 15 ]

Total Votes : 34

amother

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 10:27 pm

Title pretty much tells it all.

It seems that most people keep the first part, from Pesach till Lag Be'omer, I'm curious if I'm the only person around who keeps the second part. Anyone? It's really annoying because it's more days, and also because everyone else is listening to music after LB and I can't.

naturalmom5

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 10:31 pm

R Ahron and official Lakewood minhag is the 2nd shita

Hashem_Yaazor

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 10:41 pm

So before I was married I kept R"C till R"C (not a common minhag).
My husband's minhag is 1st half.
My husband's yeshiva minhag* is second half, so when we moved to that community, he decided we should keep second half as it's minhag hamakom (there really is a status of that here). When we move out, we'll go back to 1st half.

*As decided by the present R"Y several years ago; it was not this way always.

amother

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 10:43 pm

Dont keep it but you didnt put that as an option.

greenfire

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 10:45 pm

including myself there are those that keep the entire sefira - lag b'omer aside

mfb

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 10:54 pm

The entire sefira excluding the days of pesach, lag baomer and the three days before Shavuos

amother

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 11:00 pm

Right after I posted it, I realized I forgot to include the entire sefirah. I have heard that option but I never actually met anyone that keeps it. Well, kol hakovod to you.

Maya

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 11:04 pm

I don't know if all Chassidim do this, but the ones I know keep the entire period from the first day of Sefirah until three days before Shavous.

mha3484

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 11:07 pm

As per our rav we keep the second half as well.

Hatemywig

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 11:37 pm

The entire Sefira until שלושת ימי הגבלה.

This is the Chabad Minhag.

flowerpower

Tue, Apr 23 2013, 11:57 pm

We keep the whole thing- from peaach till 3 days before shvuos.

amother

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 12:04 am

My parents keep the whole thing, but my husband keeps the second half. So that's what I do now.

On the other hand, I sometimes feel like I don't keep anything because I work in video editing, and I'm allowed to listen to music for my job...

amother

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 12:04 am

nameless

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 7:52 am

Another vote for the whole thing. Interesting, I also didn't realize that it was that common of a minhag.

yo'ma

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 9:20 am

amother wrote:

Dont keep it but you didnt put that as an option.

When you say you don't keep it, does that include haircuts?

baba

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 10:56 am

So where do these different minhagim come from then? If we're mourning for the passing of Rabbi Akiva's students, hoiw can we just pick and chose when we mourn?

amother

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 11:16 am

Chabad keeps the whole sefirah; growing up, I thought everyone did!

amother

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 11:21 am

yo'ma wrote:

amother wrote:

Dont keep it but you didnt put that as an option.

When you say you don't keep it, does that include haircuts?

yes.

saw50st8

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 11:21 am

Growing up, my family kep the second part. Our background is Yekke.

DH keeps first half so I guess I do too. In practice, it doesn't matter to me because I don't listen to music and cut my hair so infrequently. My kids are desperate for a haircute and will get one on lag b'omer.

busydev

Wed, Apr 24 2013, 11:32 am

dh's family keeps the first in general.

like HY the yeshiva community we live in keeps second half so we do that for now.

for my wedding our families kept second half because I got married a few days after pesach and there the psak that it can be changed for a good reason.

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