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==Buying and Selling== | ==Buying and Selling== | ||
# It’s forbidden to buy and sell in any amount on Chol HaMoed because of the exertion involved. <Ref>S”A 539:1 writes that buying or selling in any amount is forbidden on Chol HaMoed. Mishna Brurah 539:1 explains that the reason is exertion. </ref> | # It’s forbidden to buy and sell in any amount on Chol HaMoed because of the exertion involved. <Ref>S”A 539:1 writes that buying or selling in any amount is forbidden on Chol HaMoed. Mishna Brurah 539:1 explains that the reason is exertion. </ref> | ||
==Writing== | |||
# Writing in a professional manner/calligraphy is only permissible if there’s a public need, a loss of money, or a passing mitzvah. <ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 72-73) </ref> | |||
# Writing in a non-professional manner such as regular handwriting is permissible for a need of the holiday, public need, a loss of money, or a passing mitzvah. <ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 73-7) </ref> | |||
# Because of ‘need of the holiday’, it’s permissible to write a shopping list or a social letter. Additionally a child may draw. Some say that one should write on a slant so as to function as a Shinui (change from the norm). <ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 75-6) </ref> | |||
# Because of ‘a loss of money’ it’s permissible to write down a Torah thought (חידוש), take notes in a vocational course, write homework for school, or to write a bank deposit (if one fears losing the money). <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 76-77) </ref> | |||
# Some consider typing on a computer like non-professional writing and so it’s permissible if there’s a ‘need of the holiday’. However, some consider typing like professional writing which is only permissible is there’s a public need, a loss of money, or a passing mitzvah. <ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 78) writes that Rav Moshe Feinstein considers typing to be non-professional writing, while, Rav Yacov Kamentsky and other poskim consider tying professional writing. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata also considers tying to be non-professional writing. </ref> | |||
# Some permit using a camera (since it’s not similar to writing) for a ‘need of the holiday’, while some only permit if there’s a loss (such as if one will miss a rare opportunity to take such a picture). <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 78) quotes Rav Moshe as permitting and Rav Yacov Kamenetsky as forbidding. </ref> | |||
# Some permit using a copy machine (since it’s not similar to writing) for a ‘need of the holiday’, while some only permit in order to prevent a loss. <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 79) quotes Rav Moshe as permitting and Rav Yacov Kamenetsky as forbidding. </ref> | |||
# It’s permissible to use a tape recorder on Chol HaMoed. <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 79) </ref> | |||
==Having Simchas== | |||
# It’s forbidden to have a wedding on Chol haMoed because of Ein Maarivin Simcha BeSimcha (one may not mix different Simcha’s). <ref>S”A 546:1 </ref> | |||
# It’s permissible to have a Brit Milah, Pidyon HaBen, or Siyum. <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 106-7) </ref> | |||
==Tefillin on Chol HaMoed== | |||
# The minhag of some Ashkenazim is to wear Tefillin on Chol HaMoed, and the minhag of Israel and minhag of Sephardim is not to wear Tefillin on Chol HaMoed. <Ref> S”A and Rama 31:2, Sh”t Yabea Omer 3:5(3) </ref> Someone who doesn’t have a minhag should not wear Tefillin on Chol haMoed. <Ref>Sh”t Teshuvot VeHanhagot 2:332 </ref> | |||
# One who wears Tefillin should stipulate before wearing the Tefillin that if there’s an obligation then I wish to fulfill that obligation, and if not, I have no intention of fulfilling the mitzvah with my action. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 31:8 </ref> | |||
# If one wears Tefillin on Chol HaMoed one shouldn’t wear Tefillin of רבינו תם (even if one usually wears Tefillin of רבינו תם). <Ref> Mishna Brurah 31:8 </ref> | |||
# Some authorities hold that if some people in the Shul wear Tefillin and others don’t there’s a violation of Lo Titgodidu (don’t cause factions in observance of Torah) and so they advise that one should either find a shul that has your minhag or pray in different locations in the same shul. <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (in the hebrew section pg 39-40) has a letter from Rav Moshe Feinstein, dated Kislev 5737, stating clearly that one should follow the minhag of the Shul and if the minhag is to wear Tefillin one should also. However, Rav Moshe Feinstein in Sh”t Igrot Moshe O”C 5:24 (pg 79 D”H Al Kol Panim) dated Kislev 5743, writes that in crowded shuls where there’s many who wear Tefillin and many who don’t there’s no issue of Lo Tasu Agudot since it’s clear that there’s two different minhagim. However, Rav Moshe adds that preferably someone who is praying in a shul that wears Tefillin should also wear Tefillin. | |||
==Work through a non-Jew== | ==Work through a non-Jew== | ||
