Non-Obvious Halachic Points that might be Very Relevant (please do not clutter)

[aygart]

I'm talking about before it was completed (still shows pending on your cc bill)

Why does that make a difference? That is all processing times and out of the buyer's hands.

[ushdadude]

There are 2 separate issues:

1) Is there some sort of transaction between 2 people that constitutes a loan.2) How much above the "principle" can be charged?

If there is no loan, then the vendor can charge whatever he wants for credit card purchases.
If there is a loan, the vendor has to be very careful how much he charges and can't pick an arbitrary percentage.

[ushdadude]

Why does that make a difference? That is all processing times and out of the buyer's hands.

Why is that relevant?

[aygart]

Why is that relevant?

He completed his transaction with the seller.

[ushdadude]

I appreciate the discussion, but I feel that we've reached a point where the debate is becoming unproductive, with both sides digging in. During the week of netzach I am working on my akshanus. With that in mind, I respectfully bow out of this conversation. Thank you for understanding.

[PlatinumGuy]

Shaving this Friday?

[Moshe Green]

Shaving this Friday?

wrong thread.
belongs in the "Obvious Halachic Points that might be Very Relevant (please do not clutter)" thread.
Unless your Lubavitch.

[avromie7]

Shaving this Friday?

Yes, unless you're sfardi.

[aygart]

I appreciate the discussion, but I feel that we've reached a point where the debate is becoming unproductive, with both sides digging in. During the week of netzach I am working on my akshanus. With that in mind, I respectfully bow out of this conversation. Thank you for understanding.

As I wrote previously, I am not compelling anyone to go with what I wrote. It is what I came out when learning the sugya and in discussion with  local poskim.

[gozalim]

לולא דמסתפינא
Sounds like the word credit is throwing it off here...

[chessman1]

As I wrote previously, I am not compelling anyone to go with what I wrote. It is what I came out when learning the sugya and in discussion with  local poskim.

Any difference between an online transaction where the card is approved immediately vs. the older type of transaction where the charge is not approved until sometime later?

[SuperFlyer]

Apparently what people say that music without instruments, i.e. acapella is allowed during the Sfira, according to a rabbi I spoke to, has no basis.
I'd like to hear if it's true.

[imayid2]

Apparently what people say that music without instruments, i.e. acapella is allowed during the Sfira, according to a rabbi I spoke to, has no basis.
I'd like to hear if it's true.

Discussed at length here:
https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=126454.msg2609887#msg2609887
https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=27758.0

[mevinyavin]

Apparently what people say that music without instruments, i.e. acapella is allowed during the Sfira, according to a rabbi I spoke to, has no basis.
I'd like to hear if it's true.

[In case this adds to the discussion referenced]
IIRC - The Mishna Berura does not assur music during sefira. This is because he assurs music all year because we don't have the Beis Hamikdash. The minhag is to be meikil but we are machmir during times of aveilus. According to Rabbi Stilerman, some say that it is a chumrah atu dancing. If this is true, any fast-moving acapella does not get around the problem, lechora.
I saw Rav Belsky Zatzal wrote a kol korei on the subject. His two main complaints were: 1. That distorting the voices or sounds should be halachically the same as an instrument. 2. Recording a voice in different keys and then "playing it" like a keyboard in a way that a human voice cannot manage should be halachically considered an instrument. He noted that this says nothing about the hashkafic issues (which, granted, do not apply to all acapella - for that matter, some acapella lacks this instrumentation he complains about).

Shuv matzasi - this and more: https://matzav.com/p%E2%80%99sak-from-rav-yisroel-belsky-and-rav-shlomo-miller-on-acappella-music-during-sefirah-2/

Full disclosure: I very much enjoy acapella music. I just don't listen to it during sefira or the three weeks.

[SuperFlyer]

[In case this adds to the discussion referenced]
IIRC - The Mishna Berura does not assur music during sefira. This is because he assurs music all year because we don't have the Beis Hamikdash. The minhag is to be meikil but we are machmir during times of aveilus. According to Rabbi Stilerman, some say that it is a chumrah atu dancing. If this is true, any fast-moving acapella does not get around the problem, lechora.
I saw Rav Belsky Zatzal wrote a kol korei on the subject. His two main complaints were: 1. That distorting the voices or sounds should be halachically the same as an instrument. 2. Recording a voice in different keys and then "playing it" like a keyboard in a way that a human voice cannot manage should be halachically considered an instrument. He noted that this says nothing about the hashkafic issues (which, granted, do not apply to all acapella - for that matter, some acapella lacks this instrumentation he complains about).

Shuv matzasi - this and more: https://matzav.com/p%E2%80%99sak-from-rav-yisroel-belsky-and-rav-shlomo-miller-on-acappella-music-during-sefirah-2/

Full disclosure: I very much enjoy acapella music. I just don't listen to it during sefira or the three weeks.

Thanks a lot!
I was also told that there is a difference between Sefira and 3 weeks on this issue.

[mevinyavin]

Thanks a lot!
I was also told that there is a difference between Sefira and 3 weeks on this issue.

Now that I never heard, but doesn't mean it isn't true. Perhaps there are less heterim given.

[Moshe Green]

According to those who hold the whole Sefira, if you shave/get a haircut on Erev Shabbos, you may not be able to shave/get a haircut on Lag BaOmer.
Ask your LOR.

[imayid2]

According to those who hold the whole Sefira, if you shave/get a haircut on Erev Shabbos, you may not be able to shave/get a haircut on Lag BaOmer.
Ask your LOR.

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Do people who do full sferira get haircuts on Lag? If yes why would that make a difference?

[Moshe Green]

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Do people who do full sferira get haircuts on Lag? If yes why would that make a difference?

I believe they do.I stand corrected. Some do.
Full Sefira is 33 days. So if you take off Pesach, Shabbos, 3 Y"G, or something like that, you get 33.
I don't know if this is the way we Paskin so i wrote ask your LOR.

[HudZ]

I believe they do.
Full Sefira is 33 days. So if you take off Pesach, Shabbos, 3 Y"G, or something like that, you get 33.
I don't know if this is the way we Paskin so i wrote ask your LOR.

Many who hold full Sefira don't take haircut even on Lag based on Arizal. (Kabalah)