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# It’s permissible to comb or wash one’s hair even though predictably hairs will be pulled out. <Ref>Rama 531:8 </ref> | # It’s permissible to comb or wash one’s hair even though predictably hairs will be pulled out. <Ref>Rama 531:8 </ref> | ||
===Shaving on Chol HaMoed=== | ===Shaving on Chol HaMoed=== | ||
# In general it's forbidden to shave on Chol HaMoed unless this jeopardizes one’s job. <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 26) </ref> | # In general, it's forbidden to shave on Chol HaMoed unless this jeopardizes one’s job. <Ref> Hilchot Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 26) </ref> | ||
# | # Many authorities permitted someone who shaves regularly, at least once every 3 days, and shaved on Erev Yom Yov to shave on Chol HaMoed if there's a great need or is pained by not shaving. Also, one who relies on this only to look presentable doesn't have to be protested. <ref> | ||
* Nodeh BeYehuda 1:13 writes that one may rely on the opinion of Rabbenu Tam who holds that one who shaved on Erev Chag may shave during Chol HaMoed on condition that the one cutting the hair is a poor person who doesn’t have what to eat. When asked why he printed such a novel idea, in Nodeh BeYehuda 2:99-101 he explains that if he didn’t print it, people would go to non-Jewish barbers who use razors and he had another secret reason. The Chatom Sofer 154 writes that the Nodeh BeYehuda’s hidden reason was that there were some who shaved daily with a razor and by allowing them to shave on Chol HaMoed he would save them from a Biblical prohibition of shaving with a razor as long as their hair stayed below some minimal level. In conclusion, the Chatom Sofer disagreed with the Nodeh BeYehuda’s leniency. | |||
* Based on the opinion of Rabbenu Tam, Sh”t Igrot Moshe 163 rules leniently for someone who shaved on Erev Yom Tov and regularly shaves at least once in every 3 days, and he’s pained by not shaving or has a great need to shave. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/764803/Rabbi_Shmuel_Marcus/Shaving_on_Chol_Hamoed Rabbi Shmuel Marcus] explains this teshuva of Rav Moshe.</ref> | |||
# Some authorities are even more lenient and say that if one shaves daily and shaved on Erev Yom Tov one should shave on Chol HaMoed. <ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/733780/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Hilchos_Chol_Hamoed Rav Shachter] (min 50-53) quotes Rav Solavatchik who said that anyone who had permit to shave should shave in order to look presentable for the holiday. </ref> | |||
==Nail cutting== | ==Nail cutting== | ||
