Chol HaMoed: Difference between revisions

=== Bringing Items to and back from a Professional ===

#One should not pick up an item from a store even if one ordered it before the holiday and even if the store is a non-Jewish store.<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 13b, Shulchan Aruch 534:3, Mishna Brurah 534:16 explains that some say it is because of tircha (unnecessary effort) to pick up something at the store and some say it is because it is going to look like it was commissioned to be done on chol hamoed. According to the last reason it is forbidden even if it is at a non-Jewish store. Chol HaMoed p. 107 agrees.</ref> If the item is necessary for the holiday it can be picked up on Chol Hamoed.<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 13b, Shulchan Aruch 534:3</ref> If it is necessary for a mitzvah item even if it isn't a tzorech hamoed it can be picked up on Chol Hamoed.<ref>Mishna Brurah 534:15 citing the Pri Megadim</ref>

==Traveling==