1) Often when eating certain foods the lips assume the color of the food.
This is common when eating a red or blue or other dark colored ice pop or foods containing beets or similar ingredients.
There is no prohibition of "coloring" the lips if this occurs as the lips turning colors is not the intended purpose of eating the food.
2) However, if a woman eats such a food with specific intent that her lips become colored it would indeed be prohibited. (Ruling of Maran HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita in Sefer Ashrei HaIsh; Shabbos, page 340)
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Reader Submitted Questions of interest on topics related to Halachos we covered, as well as other interesting topic and Answers.
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Reader's Question:
[You wrote in your halachos for July 29 2010 :] "It is a Mitzvah for Jewish males to hold their Tzitzis in their left hands, near the heart, during the recitation of Krias Shma [of Shacharis]. (Shulchan Aruch Siman 24:2)"
Do you have any information as to what a male does if his heart is on the right side rather than the left side? Situs inversus totalis is a medical condition in which there is complete right to left reversal (transposition) of the thoracic and abdominal organs including the heart .
Answer:
The Poskim do indeed discuss this , and do not conclusively rule either way if he does things according to his heart or according to the side where most people's hearts are.
In the rare instance where this will come up, a Rav needs to be consulted for Halacha l'Ma'aseh. (See Shu"t Mishneh Halachos , Mahadura Tinyana, Orach Chaim Vol. 1 Siman 33 and Shu"t Avnei Nezer Yoreh Deah Siman 32:9. See also Shu"t Kanfei Yonah (printed in Prague 1812) Siman 46 where he discusses this phenomenon).
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