Chapter 170 – Shaving the Hair of the Temples and Beard

195.1) Rend your garments when a relative dies. 195.2) Make the rend near the front of the neck of your garment. 195.3) Rending your garments for a mother or father is different than for other relatives. See the source for details. 195.4) Make the rend on the right side of your garment for all relatives;…

172.1 ) Do not eat of a new crop belonging to any of the five species until offering the omer. 172.2) 172.1 applies to countries outside Israel. 172.3) The new crop law applies only to produce raised on a field of a Jew according to some.

192.1) Plead for mercy when you fall ill. 192.2) Go to a rabbi to ask him to plead for mercy for you. 192.3) You may see a physician when sick. 192.4) A physician is duty bound to treat you. 192.5) If you are not critically ill, you may not use a forbidden article as a…

168.1) Do not make images. 168.2) Do not draw the full face picture of a man. 168.3) Do not keep a ring which has a seal consisting of a man’s image. 168.4) Do not build a house modeled after the Holy Temple. 168.5) Do not make a seven-branched candelabrum by shaping six branches in a…

200.1) Do not bury your dead on the first day of a festival. 200.2) A non-Jew may bury the dead body on the first day of a festival. 200.3) On the second day of a festival all burial activities may be performed by a non-Jew and a Jew may take care of all but the…

190.1) Make a parapet on the roofs of houses no less than ten hand-breaths (forty inches) for protection of human life. 190.2) Remove anything that could cause danger to human life. 190.3) Do not destroy anything that is fit for man’s enjoyment.