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# The poskim hold that the prohibition against doing laundry on chol hamoed applies today even though it is easy to do laundry in a washing machine. The reason is that the prohibition wasn't because of working on chol hamoed. It was enacted in order to ensure that a person prepares for the holiday properly and has clean clothing and doesn't save the laundry for chol hamoed.<ref>Yabia Omer 7:48, [https://ph.yhb.org.il/plus/12-11-11/ Peninei Halacha (Moadim 11:11:4)]</ref> | # The poskim hold that the prohibition against doing laundry on chol hamoed applies today even though it is easy to do laundry in a washing machine. The reason is that the prohibition wasn't because of working on chol hamoed. It was enacted in order to ensure that a person prepares for the holiday properly and has clean clothing and doesn't save the laundry for chol hamoed.<ref>Rav Moshe Feinstein (Hilchot Chol Hamoed Zichron Shlomo teshuva 9), Yabia Omer 7:48, Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 66:65, Or Letzion 3:24:2, [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=1081&pgnum=277 Rivevot Efraim 1:354:1], [https://ph.yhb.org.il/plus/12-11-11/ Peninei Halacha (Moadim 11:11:4)], Hilchot Chol Hamoed Zichron Shlomo p. 30. </ref> | ||
# If someone did all of their laundry before the holiday and now they don't have clean clothing a minority opinion in the poskim allows doing laundry in a washing machine, while most forbid it.<ref>[https://ph.yhb.org.il/plus/12-11-11/ Peninei Halacha (Moadim 11:11:4)] quotes several who hold that if one cleaned all of one's clothing before chol hamoed and now they're dirty to be able to launder them on chol hamoed. These poskim include [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21155&st=&pgnum=209 Chemda Genuza of R' Shalosh 2:55], Migdal Sofim 3:30, and Chevel Nachalato 11:19. He also quotes Rav Liyor in Dvar Chevron OC 545 who held this approach but is hesistant to rule like that without the approval of the gedolei hador. Peninei Halacha concludes that majority of the poskim do not allow it.</ref> | # If someone did all of their laundry before the holiday and now they don't have clean clothing a minority opinion in the poskim allows doing laundry in a washing machine, while most forbid it.<ref>[https://ph.yhb.org.il/plus/12-11-11/ Peninei Halacha (Moadim 11:11:4)] quotes several who hold that if one cleaned all of one's clothing before chol hamoed and now they're dirty to be able to launder them on chol hamoed. These poskim include [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21155&st=&pgnum=209 Chemda Genuza of R' Shalosh 2:55], Migdal Sofim 3:30, and Chevel Nachalato 11:19. He also quotes Rav Liyor in Dvar Chevron OC 545 who held this approach but is hesistant to rule like that without the approval of the gedolei hador. Peninei Halacha concludes that majority of the poskim do not allow it.</ref> | ||
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===Sheets and Towels=== | ===Sheets and Towels=== | ||
#One may launder guests' sheets and towels on Chol HaMoed.<ref>[http://www.shemayisrael.com/parsha/ostroff/archives/shabbos6_21.htm Weekly Hilchos Shabbos Shemini] | #One may launder guests' sheets and towels on Chol HaMoed if he had guests the first days and he needs them clean for more guests for chol hamoed or the second days.<ref>[https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=890&st=&pgnum=13 Beer Moshe 7:8] permits cleaning guests' sheets if they are necessary for more guests on the second days. He adds that it is proper to buy new sheets for the guests for the second days rather than do laundry on the sheets from the first days. Similarly, [http://www.shemayisrael.com/parsha/ostroff/archives/shabbos6_21.htm Weekly Hilchos Shabbos Shemini] based on Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (66 note 263). Mishna Brurah 534:6 explains that it is permitted to launder clothing that get dirty all the time since it is evident that even if one were to clean in advance of the holiday, they would need to be cleaned again on the holiday. Similarly, Chaye Adam adds that it is permitted to clean a handkerchief that gets dirty frequently. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata (66 no. 263) writes that as an application of this Mishna Brurah one is permitted to launder towels and guest sheets on the holiday since those are frequently cleaned on a regular basis. Interestingly, Shevet HaLevi 8:124 is hesitant to permit laundering undergarments which become dirty frequently on Chol HaMoed if one can wear them again without great discomfort. </ref> | ||
#It is permitted to clean sheets in a hospital and hotels on chol hamoed.<ref>Chazon Ovadia p. 198</ref> | #It is permitted to clean sheets in a hospital and hotels on chol hamoed.<ref>Chazon Ovadia p. 198</ref> | ||
#It is permitted to clean towels in a mikveh on chol hamoed.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 66:67</ref> | #It is permitted to clean towels in a mikveh on chol hamoed.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 66:67</ref> | ||
