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Clothes that get dirty frequently, such as those of babies and small children, may be washed on \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em> for festival use. The Sages prohibited washing clothes during \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em> in order to encourage people to wash them before the festival rather than wait. They did not include clothing that in any case would need to be washed during the festival. This laundry need not be done in private, as everyone knows that washing such clothes is permissible.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, one must wash all of the baby\u2019s clothing and children\u2019s clothing before the festival. Only after using up all the clean clothes may one wash whatever is necessary to get through the rest of the festival. If all of a child\u2019s Yom Tov clothes are dirty, they may be washed even if he has clean weekday clothes. One must be careful not to throw in additional clothes for use after the festival. If one did not wash all the children\u2019s clothing before the festival, many maintain that he may not do the laundry during \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em>, as it is considered as though he purposefully left this task for the festival. However, in practice, children should not suffer for their parent\u2019s mistake. Therefore, be-di\u2019avad<\/em> one may wash the clothes that got dirty during the festival together with those which were not washed beforehand.<\/p>\n

In general, children at age nine and up do not constantly get their clothes dirty, and thus their clothes may not be washed on \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em>. However, for those children who constantly get dirty when older, clothes may still be washed for festival use when they are nine or ten as well.<\/p>\n

What about hand towels that are generally changed every day or two, and tablecloths that get dirty frequently? If they are all dirty on \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em>, they may be washed in a quantity sufficient to make it through the festival (SA 534:1). This is also the case for socks and underwear, which are generally changed daily on account of sweat. After all the clean ones have been used up, enough may be washed to get through the festival.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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\n[7]<\/a>. In hotels, sheets and towels are normally changed daily. If guests demand this on \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em> as well, because otherwise they would feel the place is not sufficiently clean, the hotel staff may wash the sheets and towels, as they normally change them every day. We do not require hotel owners to buy enough sheets and towels that they can avoid washing throughout \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed<\/em> (see SSK ch. 66 n. 263). However, le-khat\u1e25ila<\/em> it is preferable for the guests not to request that their sheets and towels be changed daily, in order to minimize the need to wash. When new guests arrive, of course the sheets and towels must be changed for them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clothes that get dirty frequently, such as those of babies and small children, may be washed on \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed for festival use. The Sages prohibited washing clothes during \u1e24ol Ha-mo\u2019ed in order to encourage people to wash them before the festival rather than wait. They did not include clothing that in any case would need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-11"],"yoast_head":"\n12. 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