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==Laundry== | ==Laundry== | ||
===Ashkenazim and Sephardim=== | ===Ashkenazim and Sephardim=== | ||
#The Sephardic custom is only not to do laundry during the week of [[Tisha BeAv]].<ref>Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 551:3 based on gemara in taanit 26b. </ref> Ashkenazic custom is to refrain already from [[Rosh Chodesh]] Av.<ref>Rama Orach Chaim 551:3. </ref> | #The Sephardic custom is only not to do laundry during the week of [[Tisha BeAv]].<ref>Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 551:3 based on gemara in taanit 26b. </ref> Ashkenazic custom is to refrain already from [[Rosh Chodesh]] Av.<ref>Rama Orach Chaim 551:3. </ref> | ||
#Ashkenazim don't wear freshly laundered clothing during the nine days even if they were laundered beforehand. Sephardim don't wear freshly laundered clothing the week of Tisha BeAv.<ref>Shulchan Aruch and Rama Orach Chaim 551:3, Yechave Daat 1:39 </ref> | |||
===Doing it for Afterwards, Asking a Non-Jew=== | ===Doing it for Afterwards, Asking a Non-Jew=== | ||
#One shouldn't do laundry even if he doesn't plan on wearing the clothes until afterwards, as this distracts him from his [[mourning]]. He also should not give it to a non-Jew to do for him.<ref>Shulchan Aruch and Rama Orach Chaim 551:3 and Mishna Brurah 551:34. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/746977/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Laundry_During_the_Nine_Days Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz] at about 9:45 also says allowing a non-jewish housekeeper to do your laundry is prohibited even though this doesn't really distract you from [[mourning]]. </ref> Some poskim permit giving a non-Jew your clothing to launder if you specify that they do it after Tisha B'av.<ref>Mishna Brurah 551:34 citing the Eliya Rabba who argues with the Rama. The Eliya Rabba compares it to Chol Hamoed where this is permitted (S"A 543:3). Rabbi Eider (Halachos Of The Three Weeks p. 8) is strict.</ref> | #One shouldn't do laundry even if he doesn't plan on wearing the clothes until afterwards, as this distracts him from his [[mourning]]. He also should not give it to a non-Jew to do for him.<ref>Shulchan Aruch and Rama Orach Chaim 551:3 and Mishna Brurah 551:34. [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/746977/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Laundry_During_the_Nine_Days Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz] at about 9:45 also says allowing a non-jewish housekeeper to do your laundry is prohibited even though this doesn't really distract you from [[mourning]]. </ref> Some poskim permit giving a non-Jew your clothing to launder if you specify that they do it after Tisha B'av.<ref>Mishna Brurah 551:34 citing the Eliya Rabba who argues with the Rama. The Eliya Rabba compares it to Chol Hamoed where this is permitted (S"A 543:3). Rabbi Eider (Halachos Of The Three Weeks p. 8) is strict.</ref> | ||
