Washing one’s body on Shabbat: Difference between revisions

# One may not enter a bathhouse even to sweat in a steam room or the like. Some poskim say that one may not even enter to for some reason other than bathing such as to remove an item, if he may come to sweat even if that isn’t his intention. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 326:12 says based on the Gemara Shabbos 40a that one shouldn’t enter a bathhouse to sweat. Rama there adds that some hold that it’s asur to enter the bathhouse even if it’s for another reason, if he might sweat. Mishna Brura 326:35-36 says that according to that opinion it would be asur even if unintended but according to the Shulchan Aruch it would be permitted. Kaf Hachaim 326:55 says that though according to Shulchan Aruch one could be lenient, one should be strict if possible. Yalkut Yosef 326:9 is lenient as long as one doesn’t intend to sweat.<br/>