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Mixtures of meat and dairy
Pouring Boiling Milk into a Trash Can with Meat Residues
Positive and Negative Commandments
Lying to Avoid Hurting One's Wife
Blessings on pleasures
Blessing with Food Remnants in the Mouth
Shemoneh Esreh
Prayer within 8 cubits of the synagogue entrance
Sacrifices
Tearing Garments When Seeing the Western Wall on Hanukkah
Sacrifices
Tearing Garments upon Seeing the Western Wall on Purim
Sacrifices
Tearing Garments upon Seeing the Temple Site
Mourning
Shabbat Clothes on Shabbat When Father is Sitting Shiva
Mourning
Some Laws of Mourning for a Grandfather Who Passed Away on Friday and Was Buried on Saturday Night
Mourning
Some Laws of Mourning for a Grandfather When Burial Occurs on Friday Before Sunset
Mourning
Some Laws of Mourning for a Grandfather When the Father Does Not Sit Shiva
Mourning
Some Laws of Mourning When the Grandfather Passes Away and the Father is Not Alive
Comforting mourners
Consoling a Mourner Who Continues to Work as Usual
Fire extinguishing
Construction Work by Workers When the Contractor is Sitting Shiva
Fire extinguishing
Teaching a Child for Pay While His Father Sits Shiva