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#A married woman or one of marriageable age may shave her legs even during the Nine Days <ref>Kitzur Hilchos Bein HaMetzarim pg. 4:5 in the name of Rav Moshe Feinstein </ref>
#A married woman or one of marriageable age may shave her legs even during the Nine Days <ref>Kitzur Hilchos Bein HaMetzarim pg. 4:5 in the name of Rav Moshe Feinstein </ref>
#If [[Tisha BeAv]] falls out on [[Shabbat]] and is pushed off until Sunday, according to Sephardim, it's proper not to take a hair cut the week prior to [[Shabbat Chazon]]. However, in regards to [[shaving]], if one shaves regularly and it's difficult not to shave, one may shave during the week before [[Shabbat Chazon]], especially if one is doing so for [[Kavod Shabbat]]. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Shevua SheChal Bo #11), Yechave Daat 3:39</ref>
#If [[Tisha BeAv]] falls out on [[Shabbat]] and is pushed off until Sunday, according to Sephardim, it's proper not to take a hair cut the week prior to [[Shabbat Chazon]]. However, in regards to [[shaving]], if one shaves regularly and it's difficult not to shave, one may shave during the week before [[Shabbat Chazon]], especially if one is doing so for [[Kavod Shabbat]]. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Shevua SheChal Bo #11), Yechave Daat 3:39</ref>
==Building and Planting==
# A person may not build or plant that are related to simcha's during the nine days.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 551:2</ref>
# It is forbidden to plaster or paint one's house during the nine days.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 551:2 forbids plastering or doing tizyur, decorating one's house. Regarding painting one's house, Mikrei Kodesh 4:5 quotes the poskim who forbid this including Yalkut Yosef Moadim p. 559, Torat Hamoadim 5:19, and Kovetz Mbet Levi Av 5758 p. 23. Though he also quotes Rav Mordechai Eliyahu as originally having permitted painting a plain color but later he retracted.</ref>
# It is a dispute if it is permitted to wallpaper one's walls during the nine days.<ref>Mikrei Kodesh 4:5. See Igrot Moshe 3:82.</ref>
# It is permitted to fix up one's house, such as to fix a door or fill in a hole.<ref>Mikrei Kodesh 4:5 quoting Rav Mordechai Eliyahu</ref>
#One is permitted to build, renovate, or paint for a mitzva like building a shul or yeshiva.<ref>Mishna Brurah 551:12, Kaf Hachayim 551:25. Aruch Hashulchan 551:7 says anything for the public is considered for a mitzva and is permissible. </ref>
#One may hire a contractor to make necessary repairs to his home during the three weeks. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 551:8, even though construction for joy is not done as per Shulchan Aruch 551:2, based on a gemara yevamot 43a and tosafot "milisa." </ref>
#A non-Jewish contractor is allowed to continue building a house during the three weeks and even on [[Tisha BeAv]] if he has already begun to build for a Jew <ref>Chazon Ovadia Taaniyot page 329. </ref>
#If there is a danger such as that a wall may collapse one is allowed to rebuild it even if this causes joy. <ref>Mishna Brurah 551:13 </ref>


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