Washing on Hol HaMoed for the sick
peace,
Can someone who was sick and troubled by the illness before Chol HaMoed do laundry on Chol HaMoed?
I think not. They do not require the reason for the regulation. Although if you have nothing to wear, the poskim permitted washing one garment, just as the halacha permits washing for someone who only has one garment.
I will just point out that in Rabbi Rabinowitz's opinion, today when washing in a washing machine, it is permissible to wash as usual. And so it turns out, simply from the above it appears that they forbade a craft that involves hassle, and today there is no hassle in washing. Do you understand that they decreed that washing is an independent decree? If so, that is a strange understanding.
In fact, this is a very logical explanation. Although they did not prohibit washing simply because of the inconvenience, but so that he could wash his clothes before the holiday (like shaving), it is likely that this was only because washing was a laborious task (and then people had a tendency to postpone it until the holiday, and the problem when doing it on a holiday was also greater).
However, we should also discuss the abrogation of the decree when its purpose is no longer valid. It seems that we do not abrogate decrees when the purpose is no longer valid (and even the Rabbi, who believes that it is, admits that a different minyan is needed to abrogate them). It is true that here the act that was prohibited itself changed, and this is not only the abrogation of the purpose of the decree, but that washing no longer exists.
However, in light of what I wrote at the beginning of my remarks, that it was not the bother of washing that was the prohibition, but the fear that he would not wash for the holiday), it is possible that this cannot be called a situation in which the act that was prohibited changed. What was prohibited was not really an act, but rather a requirement to fear the situation (that he would wear something unwashed). And if this is the definition, then the situation here is the cancellation of the reason for the regulation as usual (not changing the act itself), and there is room for stricter measures.
Ultimately, I agree that there is definitely a side to easing up.
And it is even easier to do this because nowadays laundry is done almost every day, so our normal situation is like someone who has one item of clothing.
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