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#One may eat meat a meal held for a [[Bar Mitzvah]] only if it’s held the day that the son becomes 13. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah (Arba Taniyot pg 200), Halichot Shlomo (Moadim vol 2 pg 415), Yad Yitzchak 3:230, Yad Efrayim 551:31, Divrei Yatziv 2:238. Even though this is not mentioned by the Rama 551:10 as one of the meals you can eat meat for, Magen Avraham 225:4 says that a bar mitzva meal is a seudat mitzva, because just like siyum on a masechet is the celebration of the culmination of a mitzva, so too a bar mitzva is celebrating culminating the mitzva of [[chinuch]]. </ref> | #One may eat meat a meal held for a [[Bar Mitzvah]] only if it’s held the day that the son becomes 13. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah (Arba Taniyot pg 200), Halichot Shlomo (Moadim vol 2 pg 415), Yad Yitzchak 3:230, Yad Efrayim 551:31, Divrei Yatziv 2:238. Even though this is not mentioned by the Rama 551:10 as one of the meals you can eat meat for, Magen Avraham 225:4 says that a bar mitzva meal is a seudat mitzva, because just like siyum on a masechet is the celebration of the culmination of a mitzva, so too a bar mitzva is celebrating culminating the mitzva of [[chinuch]]. </ref> | ||
# If a person missed hearing the siyum itself a rav should be consulted.<ref>Rav Eider in Halachos Of The Three Weeks p. 8 writes that it seems to him to be permitted to eat from the meal even if he missed hearing the siyum but he concludes that a rav should be consulted.</ref> | # If a person missed hearing the siyum itself a rav should be consulted.<ref>Rav Eider in Halachos Of The Three Weeks p. 8 writes that it seems to him to be permitted to eat from the meal even if he missed hearing the siyum but he concludes that a rav should be consulted.</ref> | ||
==Showering, Bathing, and Swimming== | |||
#The minhag in some places is to refrain from bathing during the week which Tisha BeAv falls out and some places have the minhag not to bathe during the Nine Days.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 551:16 </ref> The Sephardi minhag is only to refrain from bathing in warm water during the week which Tisha BeAv falls out<ref>Yalkut Yosef 551:13</ref>, while the Ashkenazic minhag is to avoid pleasure bathing all 9 days.<ref>Rama 551:16</ref> | |||
#If someone is sweaty or dirty it is permitted to shower during the nine days to clean off and not for pleasure.<ref>Aruch Hashulchan 551:37 writes that it is permitted for someone who is dirty to bathe normally since he is doing so for cleanliness and not pleasure. Igrot Moshe EH 4:84:4 writes similarly that someone sweaty on a hot day can shower during the nine days.</ref> Some say that it should only be done with cold water and only with part of the body at a time.<ref>See Shevet Halevi 7:77 who rules that someone sweaty can shower in cold water with part of the body at a time but he adds that it is up to a God-fearing person when to be lenient about this. Vayivarech Dovid 1:74 permits showering to remove sweat even with soap.</ref> | |||
#The Ashkenazic minhag is not to go swimming in the Nine Days.<ref>Sh"t Teshuvot VeHanhagot 2:263, Piskei Teshuvot 551:46 | |||
#Some Poskim agree that it is OK to go swimming for exercise, but not for fun. | |||
[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735559/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Halachos_of_the_Three_Weeks Rabbi Ayreh Lebowitz], Moadei Yeshurun (pg 128) quoting Rav Moshe, Halichot Shlomo (Moadim, vol 2, chap 14, note 7), MeBayit Levi (vol 13, pg 22, note 5) quoting Rav Wosner, Sh"t Rivevot Ephraim 3:333, 4:135:14, 6:285:2, and Shevet HaKehati 1:169:4. [http://books.google.com/books?id=k2lV5wQwwj0C&lpg=PA34&ots=yg-xJtgt00&dq=swimming%20during%20the%20three%20weeks&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=swimming%20during%20the%20three%20weeks&f=false Rabbi Eider] quotes Rav Moshe Iggerot Moshe Even Haezer 4:84 who says even during the [[nine days]] if one is sweating or dirty and wants to wash off it's permissible to dip in the pool for a short time. Shaarim mitzuyanim bihalacha kuntres acharon 122:12 is lenient with children swimming in private area during the [[nine days]], but not in public, like camps.</ref> The Sephardic minhag, however, is to refrain from swimming in cold water during the week in which [[Tisha BeAv]] falls (Shevua SheChal Bo). <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Shevua SheChal Bo #14) writes that strictly speaking the Sephardic minhag would allow swimming in cold water during Shevua SheChal Bo, however, because of danger it's proper to refrain from it. This is the position of Rav Ovadya Yosef in Sh"t Yechave Daat 1:38. [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2181 Rabbi Mansour on dailyhalacha.com] however, writes that swimming during Shevua SheChal Bo is forbidden because of bathing. See also Or Letzion.</ref> | |||
#On Friday before Shabbat Chazon some permit someone who always takes a shower on Friday to take a shower before Shabbat.<ref>Rivevot Efraim 4:139 citing Rav Moshe (Rav Eider's Ben Hametzarim p. 13) and Rav Henkin (Approbation of Nechema Yosef)</ref> | |||
==Cutting Nails== | |||
#Cutting nails is permitted during the three weeks up until the week in which [[Tisha BeAv]] falls out. <ref>Mishnah Brurah 551:20 based on the Taz 551:13, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 122:5. Magen Avraham 551:13 permits cutting nails even during the week of. </ref> | |||
#Even according to those who prohibit cutting nails during the week of [[Tisha BeAv]] permit cutting nails on the friday preceding [[Tisha BeAv]], if [[Tisha BeAv]] falls on [[shabbat]]. <ref>Mishna Brurah 551:20 </ref> According to some Poskim only one who cuts his nails every Friday for [[shabbat]] may cut his nails on the friday preceding [[Tisha BeAv]]. <ref>Eliya Rabbah 551, Yad Efraim 551, Kaf Hachaim 551:48, Piskei Teshuvot 551:19 </ref> | |||
#A mohel is permitted to cut his nails in order to perform a [[Brit Milah]]. <ref>Kaf Hachaim 551:49 </ref> | |||
#A women going to the mikveh may cut her nails. <ref>Mishna Brurah 551:20 </ref> | |||
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