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Blowing the Shofar

Invalid Shofar Blowing on the Eve of Rosh Hashanah

Blowing the Shofar

Blowing the Shofar on the Eve of Rosh Hashanah for Practice

Tzedaka and maaser purposes

Donation from Tithes for Food Distribution

Blessings on pleasures

Blessing on Blintzes

Primary and secondary foods

Blessing over the Minority of Fruit

Purity laws for Kohanim

Warning for Priests in a Hospital

Purity laws for Kohanim

A Sword Has the Same Status as a Corpse

Purity laws for Kohanim

Waking a sleeping Cohen when there is a dead body in his room

Funeral and Burial

Burial of a Cohen in the Israelite Section

Purity laws for Kohanim

A Tent Adjacent to a Tent Containing a Corpse

Purity laws for Kohanim

Impurity of a severed limb for a Cohen

Purity laws for Kohanim

Performing Work When the Father is Sitting Shiva

The Mitzvah of Onah when the Father is Sitting Shiva for the Grandfather

Minor whose father is sitting Shiva for his grandfather