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Wife not wearing wedding ring after marrriage
For a good review of the significance of the wedding ring in Judaism, I recommend the section entitled "The Marriage Ring" of the book The Jewish Way in Love & Marriage, by R' Maurice Lamm. As R' ...
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Etymology of קטלא (necklace, in משניות מעילה)
The Aruch says that "some" indeed explain it as related to the Aramaic root קטל, because the woman binds it fairly tightly around her neck so that she looks plump. (In a comment on the OP, ...
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Getting body piercings
The original question as well as @SAH challenge seem to imply that the Torah forbids piercings. This belief is possibly coming from the prohibition of tatoos as the prohibition to injure oneself. But ...
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Wife not wearing wedding ring after marrriage
Halachically speaking a person does not have to use a ring for kiddushin (thus the woman need not wear it). Additionally, after the ceremony is over, the wife does not have to keep whatever object ...
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Halachic issues with double ring wedding ceremony
This question was posed to R. Moshe Feinstein by R. Ephraim Greenblatt in 1969, and is recorded in Igros Moshe E.H. 3:18.
In the first paragraph he explains that the kiddushin is still effective even ...
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What is the significance of the Choshen stones assigned to each tribe?
To answer the last part of the question that wasn't addressed yet.
Is there any significance as to why a specific stone was assigned to a specific tribe? Was it something within the color, or the ...
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Does one make a shehecheyanu on "used" jewelry?
Any item which upon acquiring would typically warrant the berachah, then even if the item was previously used/owned by another party (think: house) the Shulchan Aruch rules (OC §233:3) that the ...
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What is the significance of the Choshen stones assigned to each tribe?
There are a few opinions about the order of the names on the stones (Rashi says that they were ordered by age, from top-right to bottom-left), while Da'at Zekenim miBa'alei haTosfot think that the ...
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Halachic issues with double ring wedding ceremony
Kiddushin is fundamentally the act of the groom taking the bride, not the other way around or both ways. Hence, a double ring ceremony under the Chuppah would undermine the very mechanics of Kiddushin ...
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First time things other then gold was used as jewelry for woman,
Silver was likely also in women's jewelry from that time. See Bereishis 24:53 and Rashbam there, as well as Shemos 3:22 (which he references).
Various other Pesukim may indicate usage of other ...
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Is there a chatzitzah if one holds the lulav while wearing a gold ring around one's finger?
The basis for the rabbi's statement is a gemara (Suk. 37a) where it is evident that a barrier between the lulav and one's hand does not render the taking of the lulav "lekichah tama" (לקיחה תמה). ...
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Why did Jacob also collect earrings along with the idols?
Targum Yonasan ben Uziel says that the earings they gave to Yaakov had a picture of an idol in them.
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Getting body piercings
Several Mishnayoth and Gemaroth are linked to the question. Through these texts that we will discover the Halacha.
The first appears in Mishna (Baba Kama Chapter 8 Mishna 5)
"הַחוֹבֵל בְּעַצְמוֹ, ...
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Wearing Watches on Shabbat
In addition to what my predecessors wrote, today's smartwatches include two functions that must be disabled before Shabbat:
a. Communication: e.g. Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. If the smartwatch has "...
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Where's Chazal About Jewelry Without Clothes
The gemmora in first perek of megillah says that Achashverosh ordered Vashti to come before him as described in your question.
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Where's Chazal About Jewelry Without Clothes
You are most probably thinking of the Gemara Sota 8b
הָיוּ עָלֶיהָ כְּלֵי זָהָב וְכוּ׳ פְּשִׁיטָא הַשְׁתָּא נַוּוֹלֵי מְנַוֵּויל לַהּ הָנֵי מִיבַּעְיָא מַהוּ דְּתֵימָא בְּהָנֵי אִית לַהּ בִּזָּיוֹן ...
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Rings as chatzitzahs for bread, mikvah, washing
Halochakli it is permitted if a chatzitza covers less than half the body (or heir) and it does not bother most of the woman like her (that have her profession)
But the minhag is lohathila for mikva ...
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Where's Chazal About Jewelry Without Clothes
The passuk says in Mishlei 11,22, 'Nezem zagav be'af chazir, ishah yaphah v'soras taam'.
A gold ring in the nose of a pig, a beatifull woman with no reason.
The mishna in Avos 6,2 quotes this passuk ...
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Putting a ring on a Kallah that's a niddah
As we discussed in the question about Menstruating on Wedding Day there seem to be various customs.
The groom is careful not to touch the bride when putting the ring on her finger.
This seems to be ...
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Why did Jacob also collect earrings along with the idols?
R. Dovid Zvi Hoffmann says that these earings were in the form of idols and the words אשר בידם would imply that (any kind of) jewelry in their possession was often in form of idols.
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Can One Wear Engraved Jewelry?
In Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Dei’ah, 141:6, it says that an ingraving of an animal is permitted
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Can men get a piercing?
The Talmud says:
[On Shabbat], a tailor must not go out with a needle stuck in his garment, nor a carpenter with a chip in his ear. [Shabbat 11b]
Rashi informs us that men wore earrings that ...
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Can a wedding band be made from white gold?
There is no issue in a white gold wedding bad provided that
it is the groom's own possession
it is worth at least a pruta (a few cents today) and
that the bride is clear on what it is (see SA EH 31:1)...
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House on wedding ring, why not?
Possibly because it has an engraving/etching, and would have the same problem as one - that she might think that she is being mekudeshes with the value of said engraving, and it is not be'etzem worth ...
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Wife not wearing wedding ring after marrriage
the only possible problem that comes to mind in stopping to wear it is that she already started to do it and might have done it with the plans to continue to do it (similar to the case of washing the ...
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May a woman wear a jeweled key pin on Shabbat in an area that has no eruv?
I asked my Rav and he explained that the pin has to be a piece of jewelry in itself that would be worn even if the key no longer works on the lock. In that case it is jewelry. If the woman would not ...
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May a woman wear a jeweled key pin on Shabbat in an area that has no eruv?
The basic knowledge regarding this question is in mishnayot Shabbat (chapter 6 mishnayot 1& 2). The mishna taugth with which jewel a man can go outside and with which he can't, with which jewel ...
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Where's Chazal About Jewelry Without Clothes
Most likely Ezekiel 16:7, where God describes finding the Jewish people as "all fancied up, but naked." The Passover Hagada quotes this verse -- when it says the Jewish people had become "great", that ...
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Star of David necklace
No one should be offended by you choosing to wear a necklace.
It's hard to say who will be offended by what as t here is always some fool that's looking to be offended by something.
That being said ...
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Is it wrong to wear a necklace of a magen david?
Rav Ari Enkin describes
From the days of the Arizal, people had the custom of making and
wearing amulets with a Magen David. It was recommended that pregnant
women wear a Magen David as a ...
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