Friday, May 5, 2017

clothing - Prohibition to Wear Freshly Laundered Clothes in the 9 days


Normally is customary to avoid wearing freshly laundered clothes during the 9 days. Does this apply these days when freshly laundered clothes are no longer exciting and new? Perhaps the parallel today ought to be freshly dry cleaned clothes?


@curiouser here cites Shu"T Siach Nachum by R. Nachum Rabinovitz who apparently holds this. Does anyone know where this responsum can be found, or of other poskim who concur?




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