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Onion cut with a dairy knife

Oven in which dairy was baked

Eating meat during the Nine Days

Siyum without understanding the whole tractate

Immersion of utensils

The Immersion Method for a Hand Blender

Chametz after Passover

Wholemeal flour that has passed over Pesach

Obligation of the Gomel blessing in a case of possible danger

A blessing without the closing formula

What is included in the term "hesped"

Sitting for Tachanun before stepping back

Make-up prayer (tashlumin) for a woman

Traveling Before Shacharit

Haircuts and shaving

Haircut on Lag BaOmer

The First Year after Death

Participation of a mourner in a celebration

Dyeing Tefillin Not for the Sake of the Mitzvah

Other situations

Washing hands for one who touches hair