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What is included in the term "eulogy"?

Sitting for Tachanun before stepping back

Make-up prayer (tashlumin) for a woman

Traveling before Shacharit

Haircuts and shaving

Haircuts on Lag BaOmer

The First Year after Death

Participation of a mourner in a celebration

Coloring Tefillin Not for the Sake of the Mitzvah

Other situations

Netilat Yadayim for one who touches hair

Blessings on various foods

The blessing for quinoa

Grace after meal (birkas hamazon)

Drinking after Birkat Hamazon

Weddings and music

Vocal drum sounds during the Counting of the Omer

Haircuts and shaving

Haircut for a Prisoner during the Days of the Omer

Tachanun on Pesach Sheni

Blessing and counting of the Omer

The Time for Counting the Omer

Kashrut of a breast pump for Pesach