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| #Although there is a practice that a minority of people have not to have meat and wine all of the three weeks, most only refrains from it for the nine days. All of the details are found on the [[Nine_Days#Eating_Meat_and_Drinking_Wine]] page. | | #Although there is a practice that a minority of people have not to have meat and wine all of the three weeks, most only refrains from it for the nine days. All of the details are found on the [[Nine_Days#Eating_Meat_and_Drinking_Wine]] page. |
| #The same is true for doing laundry that it only applies during the [[nine days]]. See that page for details. | | #The same is true for doing laundry that it only applies during the [[nine days]]. See that page for details. |
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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>
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| # 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>
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| # 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>
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| # 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>
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| #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>
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| #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>
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| #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>
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| #If there is a danger such as that a wall may collapse one is allowed to rebuild it even if this causes joy. <ref>Mishna Brurah 551:13 </ref>
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