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===Undergarments===
===Undergarments===


#It is permitted to launder socks and stockings on chol hamoed if they got dirty. It is better to buy new ones and wash the dirty ones. It is better to wash them by adding them to a load with children clothing rather than wash them by themselves.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchato 66:66, Hilchot Chag Bchag p. 225</ref>
#It is permitted to launder socks and stockings on chol hamoed if they got dirty. It is better to buy new ones and wash the dirty ones. It is better to wash them by adding them to a load with children clothing rather than wash them by themselves.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchato 66:66, Hilchot Chag Bchag p. 225. This also seems to be the view of Chazon Ovadia p. 198. However, Hilchot Chol Hamoed Zichron Shlomo p. 32 quotes the Debretziner who was strict not to launder even socks and underwear. The only recourse for someone whose clothing got dirty is to buy new ones. In a case where a person doesn't have enough he should ask a competent posek. </ref>
#Some poskim allow cleaning an adult's undergarments if they were all cleaned before the holiday and then because they frequently get sweaty or dirty need to be laundered and there aren't any other available, can be washed in the washing machine on Chol Hamoed.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 534:8 based on Magen Avraham 534:2 and Shraga Hameir 7:43:3. Chazon Ovadia p. 198 permits laundering undershirts if a person changes them daily if he doesn't have clean ones. </ref> However, some poskim are strict and forbid laundering undershirts.<ref>Hilchot Chag Bchag p. 226 quotes that Rav Elyashiv forbade laundering undershirts which get dirty every day and he should just buy new ones.</ref>
#Some poskim allow cleaning an adult's undergarments if they were all cleaned before the holiday and then because they frequently get sweaty or dirty need to be laundered and there aren't any other available, can be washed in the washing machine on Chol Hamoed.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 534:8 based on Magen Avraham 534:2 and Shraga Hameir 7:43:3. Chazon Ovadia p. 198 permits laundering undershirts if a person changes them daily if he doesn't have clean ones. </ref> However, some poskim are strict and forbid laundering undershirts.<ref>Hilchot Chag Bchag p. 226 quotes that Rav Elyashiv forbade laundering undershirts which get dirty every day and he should just buy new ones.</ref>
#Similarly, a niddah who needs to change her white underwear for [[Shiva Nekiyim]] and doesn't have enough can launder it on Chol Hamoed.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 534:6 based on Meiri Moed Katan 14a</ref>
#Similarly, a niddah who needs to change her white underwear for [[Shiva Nekiyim]] and doesn't have enough can launder it on Chol Hamoed.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 534:6 based on Meiri Moed Katan 14a</ref>
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===Children's Clothing===
===Children's Clothing===
#If a child’s clothing are insufficient because they are soiled frequently it’s permissible to launder them on Chol HaMoed.<ref>Mishna Brurah 534:11 and Aruch HaShulchan 534:8. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Shulchan Shlomo 534:3 says that this age is until at most 6 or 7 years old. </ref>  
#If a child’s clothing are insufficient because they are soiled frequently it’s permissible to launder them on Chol HaMoed.<ref>Mishna Brurah 534:11 and Aruch HaShulchan 534:8. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Shulchan Shlomo 534:3 says that this age is until at most 6 or 7 years old. </ref>  
#If one is running a load of children's clothing which are necessary one may fill up the load of children’s clothing even those which aren't as necessary. However, one may not add adult's clothing.<ref>Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 32)</ref> It is permitted to clean the children's clothing that are necessary for the rest of the moed all together in one load rather than one clean the ones that are necessary right then.<ref>Hilchot Chag Bchag p. 229-230. He explains that it is minimizing the tircha and melacha by doing it together. Even though Rama 534:6 writes that a person should only clean the children's clothing one at a time as necessary, here it is permitted since doing it one at a time will be more tircha and melacha.</ref>
#It is permitted to clean the children's clothing that are necessary for the rest of the moed all together in one load, rather than one clean the ones that are necessary right then.<ref>Hilchot Chol Hamoed Zichron Shlomo p. 32. Hilchot Chag Bchag p. 229-230. He explains that it is minimizing the tircha and melacha by doing it together. Even though Rama 534:6 writes that a person should only clean the children's clothing one at a time as necessary, here it is permitted since doing it one at a time will be more tircha and melacha.</ref>
#If someone is going with their children to their parents or another place some poskim hold that one should bring as many of the children's clothing as they own in order that they won't have to launder them on chol hamoed,<ref>Beer Moshe 7:9</ref> while others are lenient if it is a difficulty.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata ch. 66 fnt. 255 citing Hilchot Chol Hamoed Zichron Shlomo quoting Rav Moshe Feinstein</ref>
#If someone is going with their children to their parents or another place some poskim hold that one should bring as many of the children's clothing as they own in order that they won't have to launder them on chol hamoed,<ref>Beer Moshe 7:9</ref> while others are lenient if it is a difficulty.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata ch. 66 fnt. 255 citing Hilchot Chol Hamoed Zichron Shlomo quoting Rav Moshe Feinstein</ref>


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