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Reading the Megillah

Can one hear the Megillah before Shacharit

Burning the Wicks after Hanukkah

Simchas Torah and Shemini Atzeres

Aliyah to the Torah on Simchat Torah

Order of Reciting Selichot

Reciting Selichot Alone

Looking at a woman

How to Erase Forbidden Images from the Mind

Tearing Clothes for Women at the Western Wall

Tearing Garments on Chol HaMoed at the Western Wall

Advice to Avoid Tearing at the Western Wall

How to Avoid Tearing at the Western Wall

Transferring Clothing to Exempt from Tearing at the Western Wall

Renewing Clothes on a Fast Day

Shabbos garments and various customs

Shabbat Clothes During a Fast

The Tenth of Teves

Fast of the Tenth of Tevet for a Sick Person