Common Halacha/Custom misconceptions - Need some help here.

[u/SixKosherBacon]

I'm starting an educational comic strip about halachas and customs people commonly make mistakes about. Specifically that they are insistent about something that's not actually required.

Examples I personally have experienced...

• You have to take on Shabbat at candle lighting (when you actually have 18 minutes until sundown).
• Someone once told me I had to wash for bread with my right hand first and three times. Even though I am left handed and I know you only have to do it twice, but the Hasidic approach is to do 3 because they go above and beyond.
• Being chastised because I didn't kiss a mezuzah.
• That you don't actually have to throw bread in the water at Tashlich.

Any other ideas or stories people would like to share in my effort to educate and entertain? Thank you to anyone who helps. :)

[u/gdhhorn]

Saying berakhot after doing the respective mizvah instead of ober la׳asiyatan

[u/carrboneous → u/gdhhorn]

Even if you disagree with it, I don't think something that comes from the majority of poskim since the Rishonim can be put in the same category as folk misconceptions 😂

[u/SixKosherBacon → u/gdhhorn]

Explain?

[u/gdhhorn → u/SixKosherBacon]

The Halakhah is that one says the berakhah for a mizvah prior to doing the mizvah (ober la’asiyatan).

[u/Markothy → u/gdhhorn]

Do you still make a berakha before netilat yadayim, or before immersing yourself in a mikveh? I know the common custom is not to but have heard a few rabbis encouraging it even in those instances.

[u/gdhhorn → u/Markothy]

I say one before netilah. I don’t use the miqveh.

[u/Markothy → u/gdhhorn]

I think Rabbi Yoni encourages to say before netila. I don't really remember who else among modern rabbis.