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# A person may not build or plant that are related to simcha's during the nine days.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 551:2</ref> | |||
#One is permitted to build, renovate, or paint for a mitzva like building a shul or yeshiva. <ref>Mishna Brurah 551:12, Kaf Hachayim 551:25 . Aruch Hashulchan 551:7 says anything for the public is considered for a mitzva and is permissible. </ref> | # It is forbidden to plaster or piant one's house during the nine days.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 551:2 forbids plastering or doing tizyur, decorating one's house. Regarding painting one's house, Mikrei Kodesh 4:5 quotes the poskim who forbid this including Yalkut Yosef Moadim p. 559, Torat Hamoadim 5:19, and Kovetz Mbet Levi Av 5758 p. 23. Though he also quotes Rav Mordechai Eliyahu as originally having permitted painting a plain color but later he retracted.</ref> | ||
# It is a dispute if it is permitted to wallpaper one's walls during the nine days.<ref>Mikrei Kodesh 4:5. See Igrot Moshe 3:82.</ref> | |||
# It is permitted to fix up one's house, such as to fix a door or fill in a hole.<ref>Mikrei Kodesh 4:5 quoting Rav Mordechai Eliyahu</ref> | |||
#One is permitted to build, renovate, or paint for a mitzva like building a shul or yeshiva.<ref>Mishna Brurah 551:12, Kaf Hachayim 551:25. Aruch Hashulchan 551:7 says anything for the public is considered for a mitzva and is permissible. </ref> | |||
#One may hire a contractor to make necessary repairs to his home during the three weeks. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 551:8, even though construction for joy is not done as per Shulchan Aruch 551:2, based on a gemara yevamot 43a and tosafot "milisa." </ref> | #One may hire a contractor to make necessary repairs to his home during the three weeks. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 551:8, even though construction for joy is not done as per Shulchan Aruch 551:2, based on a gemara yevamot 43a and tosafot "milisa." </ref> | ||
#A non-Jewish contractor is allowed to continue building a house during the three weeks and even on [[Tisha BeAv]] if he has already begun to build for a Jew <ref>Chazon Ovadia Taaniyot page 329. </ref> | #A non-Jewish contractor is allowed to continue building a house during the three weeks and even on [[Tisha BeAv]] if he has already begun to build for a Jew <ref>Chazon Ovadia Taaniyot page 329. </ref> | ||
