This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 13. Warming up one’s wet body near a fire:[1] Pouring cold water on one’s body and heating it near a fire:[2] A person may not rinse his entire body in cold water and heat himself opposite a fire because […]
12. Perspiring on Shabbos in a bathhouse
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 12. Perspiring on Shabbos in a bathhouse:[1] Entering a steam room: The Sages forbade one to enter a bathhouse even in order to merely perspire [one’s body]. The reason for this is:[2] due to the transgressors who would bathe […]
11. Splashing twigs away while in a body of water
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 11. Splashing twigs away while in a body of water:[1] The rule: It is forbidden for a person in a river to splash an item away from oneself or towards oneself. The reason for this is because:[2] doing so […]
10. Swimming on Shabbos
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 10. Swimming on Shabbos:[1] Introduction: Although bathing in cold water is customarily forbidden on Shabbos, as explained in the previous Halachos, nevertheless it may be done in certain scenarios, such as for the sake of Mikveh, or to relieve […]
9. The prohibition of squeezing liquid from hair on Shabbos
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 9. The prohibition of squeezing liquid from hair on Shabbos:[1] Every bather needs to beware not to squeeze his hair. The Reason: Now, although there is no applicable [Biblical] prohibition of squeezing hair[2] being that hair is hard and […]
8. The allowance to dry oneself on Shabbos
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 8. The allowance to dry oneself on Shabbos:[1] One who washes his face hands and feet in hot water which was heated from before Shabbos, or even [one] who bathes his entire body in the Tiberius springs, or in […]
7. Going to Mikvah on Shabbos
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 7. Going to Mikvah on Shabbos:[1] A person is allowed to purify himself of his impurities by immersing in a mikvah on Shabbos[2] even if this immersing is Biblically required [to be done], such as a nidda and the […]
6. Doing Hefsek Taharah on Shabbos
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 6. Doing Hefsek Taharah on Shabbos:[1] [Being that washing only minority of one’s limbs with water heated before Shabbos is permitted,] therefore in a place where there is no [accepted] custom [otherwise], a woman is allowed to begin her […]
5. Bathing for healing purposes
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 5. Bathing for healing purposes:[1] Introduction: The bathing prohibition which applies when bathing in hot water, as well as the custom to prohibit bathing even in cold water, does not apply in a case that one is bathing for […]
Walking in the rain
Walking outside while it is raining:[1] One who is walking through a public area and rain falls on him and on his clothes, the Sages were not stringent on [his walking of four cubits with the drops of water on him]. The reason for this is: because this is a […]
