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No Haircut Three Weeks (Ashk) / Nine Days (Seph)
Major Ashkenazi-Sephardic split: Rema from 17 Tammuz, Beit Yosef from Rosh Chodesh Av.
Major Ashkenazi-Sephardic split: Rema from 17 Tammuz, Beit Yosef from Rosh Chodesh Av.
Key passages(3)
Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim :: three-weeks-no-haircut :: 551:4↗curated_attribution
Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim · Joseph Karo · 1563 CE
High
Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim · Joseph Karo · 1563 CE
High
Mishnah Berurah :: three-weeks-no-haircut :: 551:26↗curated_attribution
Mishnah Berurah · Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim) · 1875 CE
High