Chol HaMoed: Difference between revisions

|Working in Public||Professional - forbidden; Non-professional - permitted<ref>Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 23); Shulchan Aruch OC 533:5 writes clearly that melacha for a need of the holiday when done by a professional needs to be in private. Also, Shulchan Aruch OC 540 and 541 give examples of tzorech hamoed that's a melacha of a hedyot and never mention that it needs to be in private. However, Ramban (Chidushim Moed Katan s.v. ulinyan) writes that we don't find the concept of doing the melacha in private on chol hamoed except for a professional working the same way he works all year, but non-professional work for the need of the holiday may be done in public. </ref>||Forbidden for uman<ref>Moed Katan 13b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 533:7-8, Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 37). </ref>||Permitted<ref>Meiri (19a s.v. k'shetitbonen), Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 47) </ref>||Forbidden <ref>Chol HaMoed Zichron Shlomo (pg 52). However, Ramban (Piskei Chol Hamoed s.v. v'l'inyan) writes that working in private is only necessary if there's a concern for a loss, but if it is certain that there's going to be a loss it is permitted to work in public. Also, even if there's a concern for a loss if there's no way to do it in private, it may be done in public. </ref>||Forbidden<ref>Mishna Brurah 534:18</ref>