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The Sages instituted prohibitions against cutting one\u2019s hair and washing one\u2019s clothes during the week of Tisha Be-Av (Ta\u2019anit 26b). Accordingly, Shul\u0125an Arukh (551:3) rules that one may not cut one\u2019s hair from the beginning of the week in which Tisha Be-Av falls, and many Sephardim follow this practice. One may not cut even children\u2019s hair if they have reached the age of \u0125inukh (education), in order to train them to mourn the destruction of the Temple. The custom, moreover, is not to cut the hair of even children who have yet to reach the age of \u0125inukh, in order to express the sorrow we feel during this period (SA 551:14).
\nAshkenazim and some Sephardim \u2013 including Jews from Morocco and Djerba, and those who follow Arizal\u2019s customs \u2013 are stringent and avoid haircuts during the entirety of the Three Weeks (Rema 551:4; Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim 551:80; Kitzur SA [Toledano] 387:8; Brit Kehuna 2:12; Jews from Tunis and Algiers customarily do not cut their hair starting from the first of Av, based on the ruling of R. Yehuda Ayash).
\nThere is disagreement about whether these communities should be stringent about haircuts for children during the entirety of the Three Weeks or only during the week of Tisha Be-Av. In a time of need, one may be lenient until the week of Tisha Be-Av (MB 551:82).
\nThis prohibition does not apply only to head and facial hair, but applies to body hair as well. One may, however, trim mustache hair that interferes with one\u2019s eating (SA 551:12-13).
\nA woman may cut her hair if it is beginning to slip out of her head-covering due to its length. A woman may also remove facial or body hair that mars her beauty (MB 551:79, Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim 551:47). 1<\/a><\/sup>
\nIn honor of a brit mila, the father, the sandak, and the mohel may cut their hair, until the week of Tisha Be-Av (see below, section 19, regarding clothing).
\nIt is proper for a bar mitzva boy to refrain from cutting his hair during the Three Weeks, because he can cut his hair before the seventeenth of Tamuz. However, if the boy\u2019s father usually shaves every day, he may shave in honor of his son\u2019s becoming a bar mitzva, until the week of Tisha Be-Av (see Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim 551:10, Piskei Teshuvot 551:6).
\nOne may comb one\u2019s hair even during the week of Tisha Be-Av (MB 551:20, Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim 551:46). The A\u0125aronim debate whether one may cut one\u2019s nails during the Nine Days, although one certainly may do so in honor of Shabbat (MB 551:20, Kaf Ha-\u0125ayim 551:48). <\/p>\n

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  1. Some are even more lenient, maintaining that the prohibition on haircuts does not apply to women at all, in accordance with the opinion of sa regarding mourning after shiva (yd 390:5). This ruling is found in Panim Me\u2019irot 2:37 and Torat Ha-mo\u2019adim 5:26. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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