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Waiting Six Hours to Eat Dairy After Consuming Meat

Precedence between the different blessings

The Giving Preference to Hot Food

Prayer without Intention in Avot

Holding a Baby or a Siddur During Prayer

Interposition between tefillin and body

Covering of the Hand Tefillin

Interposition between tefillin and body

Obstruction on the Tefillin Straps

Changing a shirt after the Sabbath of Mourning

The Prohibition of Destruction in Tearing More Than a Handbreadth

Tearing a Garment with Scissors

Tearing by oneself or by another

Tearing at the Hem of the Garment

Rending on the Death of a Grandfather

Tearing at the Seam

Rending on the Second Day of Yom Tov for an Israeli who is abroad

Tearing Garments in Mourning for a Rabbi Who Taught Torah