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An elderly person told me that they had a minhag on Lag Baomer to paint hard boiled eggs. Sounds like a different non-Jewish holiday to me. HAs anyone ever heard of this minhag?
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yo imma let you finish, but any1 heard of girls not wearing purfume on a date? wut? plz xplain ty.
That’s hysterical. My son came home with the same question today. I told him only when Lag Baomer falls on Easter.
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Wow I thought you were joking until I did some googling. Turns out that it is a Lubavitch and Karlin minhag. I found articles talking about it but they didn’t have sources.
Ummmm… will anyone agree with me when I say Chukas Hagoyim here?
No, Sam, they took it from our minhag from Pesach.
Maybe there’s a minhag to paint eggs on pesach is so that you’ll know which eggs were laid before yontiff and were already mevatel any chometz stuck to them.
Sam
I don’t know much about this minhag but many of the things the non Jews do on their Holidays was actually borrowed (stolen) from us. According to my googling it was an ancient Jewish practice to paint eggs. Do your own googling and get back to me.
WIY: I don’t research so many Minhagim. If the Jews did this first then it’s not Chukas Akum. But we also stole things from them. Things that we stole from them are Assur. I’ll take your word for this until I have time to properly research this later.
Sam2- im currently learning the sugya (whatup!) so im in for this thread. i think even if we did it first but then they started doing it, it would still be ossur, bifrat if their practice is mikushar to avodah zara. the taaynah of doing first is only if theres a mikkor in the torah, not stam a practice.
If I’m not mistaken, the Torah says a matzevah is assur because the Goyim do it. Rashi points out that even though Avraham Avinu did it first, since the Goyim took it up, it became Chukas Hagoyim.
Toi: That’s not L’kulei Alma. The Rambam in the Moreh might even be Mashma the opposite, but it’s vague so you can read in any way you want and it’s not Muchrach. The Gra (in YD 179:1 and 179:3, if I recall correctly) says that it depends on when it starts. The big Nafka Minah for something that we started but they stole and then we took from them, obviously, is engagement rings.
ill check up the Gaon tomorrow, dont have seforim at home. im still holding in gemara and rishonim.
I heard of the egg-painting thing from someone who gave me a kosher recipe for rabbit stew.
“I heard of the egg-painting thing from someone who gave me a kosher recipe for rabbit stew”
LOL!
Sam2- i checked up the Gaon and i think i was right. he seems to be saying his heter on the cases that fit with the second din of tosfos on A”Z 11a that things they were noheg because of hevel vishtus have a heter of ksiva bi’orayso, on which the gaon says that us doing it first is good enough. He’s specifically talking about malbush in sh”a and i think that anyhting due to A”Z would still be ossur- like egg painting. think matzevos-same thing.
Sam2- where are you?
Toi: Didn’t see your post yesterday. I’ll look at the Gra again, but I’m pretty sure he says it depends on when it starts. Maybe it’s a different Gra. And the Rambam in the Moreh is Mechalek between a Matzeivah and other things because they stole using a Matzeivah before Mattan Torah.
i didnt look for the rambam in MN. i guess we shall see.
Toi: I think it’s like 3:47 or 48. It’s somewhere towards the end, if I recall correctly.
Brony – think about it this way:
Once a girl is married, there are times when she is not allowed to wear perfume for her husband, (the halacha is that he cannot smell his wife’s perfume, therefore the only way this can be kept is if she doesn’t wear it). How much more so for a girl who is not yet married to put it on specially for a date! You wouldn’t start touching up your makeup in front of the guy you were dating, would you?
r u punk’n me? married women can’t wear perfume? my life is over, kill me now. and i’m not even going to touch that last sentence. if she doesn’t wear makeup its over.
married women can wear perfume, just not at certain times. and I was talking about touching up makeup, not wearing it (ie: taking out a lip gloss and applying it in front of the guy). wearing it is fine, as long as it was all put on before the date, not during. but a guy can’t avoid smelling perfume so it’s not a good idea to wear it on a date at all.
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