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''' | '''Heating up water on [[Yom Tov]]''' | ||
<p class="indent">In the Mishna ([https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%94_%D7%91_%D7%94 Beitzah 2:5]), Bet Shamai say that one may only heat up water for washing one’s feet and only to a temperature that one would be able to drink, while Bet Hillel permit heating up the water even as hot as needed to bathe. The Rif and Tosfot (Beitzah 21b) stipulate that Beit Hillel only permitted heating water on [[Yom Tov]] for one's hands and feet, but not for one's entire body. </p> | <p class="indent">In the Mishna ([https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%94_%D7%91_%D7%94 Beitzah 2:5]), Bet Shamai say that one may only heat up water for washing one’s feet and only to a temperature that one would be able to drink, while Bet Hillel permit heating up the water even as hot as needed to bathe. The Rif and Tosfot (Beitzah 21b) stipulate that Beit Hillel only permitted heating water on [[Yom Tov]] for one's hands and feet, but not for one's entire body. </p> | ||
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=== Ashkenazic === | === Ashkenazic === | ||
Many major authorities forbid taking a shower with hot water whether the water was heated before [[Yom Tov]] or on [[Yom Tov]]. However, one may wash one's body one limb at a time with water heated before [[Yom Tov]] and one may heat up water on [[Yom Tov]] to wash one’s face hands and feet. However, some authorities are lenient and hold that it's preferable to shower on [[Yom Tov]] with lukewarm water but it's even permitted to shower with hot water, however, one should not use very hot water. Nonetheless, it's imperative to be careful about certain concerns: | Many major authorities forbid taking a shower with hot water whether the water was heated before [[Yom Tov]] or on [[Yom Tov]]. However, one may wash one's body one limb at a time with water heated before [[Yom Tov]] and one may heat up water on [[Yom Tov]] to wash one’s face hands and feet. Rav Mordechai Willig holds that one shouldn't shower on Yom Tov as a minhag.<ref>[https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1090950## Rav Mordechai Willig (Showering on Yom Tov)] explains that he tells people not to shower on Yom Tov because the Magen Avraham says it is the minhag not to even bath in cold water on Shabbat. So too here the minhag is not to shower on Yom Tov. In terms of gezerat habaalim, he holds that it doesn't apply in a private house. In terms of shava lkol nefesh he holds that it is considered shava lkol nefesh nowadays. </ref> | ||
However, some authorities are lenient and hold that it's preferable to shower on [[Yom Tov]] with lukewarm water but it's even permitted to shower with hot water, however, one should not use very hot water. Nonetheless, it's imperative to be careful about certain concerns: | |||
*(1) that one may not squeeze water out of one's hair, either to dry it or to rub in shampoo and so one should put the shampoo in before wetting one's hair. | *(1) that one may not squeeze water out of one's hair, either to dry it or to rub in shampoo and so one should put the shampoo in before wetting one's hair. | ||
