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# Many water heaters or boilers are made so that automatically when hot water is removed cold water is added. If this is the case, it’s forbidden to remove hot water from the water heater, even if the water heater is turned off, because doing so will heat up the cold water which is added (which entails a violation of [[Bishul]]).<Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:39 </ref> | # Many water heaters or boilers are made so that automatically when hot water is removed cold water is added. If this is the case, it’s forbidden to remove hot water from the water heater, even if the water heater is turned off, because doing so will heat up the cold water which is added (which entails a violation of [[Bishul]]).<Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:39 </ref> | ||
===Cold Water=== | ===Cold Water=== | ||
# The sephardic custom is to allow showering in cold water on Shabbos. Many ashkenazim have the custom not to shower even in cold water.<ref> Yalkut Yosef 326:3 says that it is permissible to shower in cold water on Shabbos, but one should be careful not to squeeze water out of his hair or his towel. Livyat Chen pg. 123, Rabbi Eli Mansour, and Kaf Hachaim 326:25 agree. Magen Avraham 326:8 says based on the Maharil 139 that one should not wash in a mikveh or river even in cold water because one may come to squeeze water out of his hair or towel or one may come to carry the drops of water on his body for 4 amot. Mishna Brura 326:21 agrees. Shoneh Halachot 6 writes in the name of the Chazon Ish that the same is true of showers. Minchat Yitzchak 6:32 agrees. Rav Moshe Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe 4:74-75) agrees that this is the minhag, but is lenient in case of tzaar such as a sick person or a heat wave. Shemirat Shabbos Kihilchita 14:11, Ketzot Hashulchan 137:8 and Sh”t Beer Moshe 6:73 agree. Biur Halacha 326:1 s.v. bimayim quotes Rabbi Akiva Eiger (Shulchan Aruch | # The sephardic custom is to allow showering in cold water on Shabbos. Many ashkenazim have the custom not to shower even in cold water.<ref> Yalkut Yosef 326:3 says that it is permissible to shower in cold water on Shabbos, but one should be careful not to squeeze water out of his hair or his towel. Livyat Chen pg. 123, Rabbi Eli Mansour, and Kaf Hachaim 326:25 agree. Magen Avraham 326:8 says based on the Maharil 139 that one should not wash in a mikveh or river even in cold water because one may come to squeeze water out of his hair or towel or one may come to carry the drops of water on his body for 4 amot. Mishna Brura 326:21 agrees. Shoneh Halachot 6 writes in the name of the Chazon Ish that the same is true of showers. Minchat Yitzchak 6:32 agrees. Rav Moshe Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe 4:74-75) agrees that this is the minhag, but is lenient in case of tzaar such as a sick person or a heat wave. Shemirat Shabbos Kihilchita 14:11, Ketzot Hashulchan 137:8 and Sh”t Beer Moshe 6:73 agree. Biur Halacha 326:1 s.v. bimayim quotes Rabbi Akiva Eiger (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 307:5 and 326:1) saying that one can bathe even in water heated before shabbos if he is suffering. Rav Schachter (end of Gemara Shabbos Shiur 57) says that the minhag nowadays is to allow showering in cold water on Shabbos.<br/> </ref> | ||
==Washing Hands, Feet, and Face== | ==Washing Hands, Feet, and Face== | ||
