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If I only possess four white shirts and I live in a place in which people always change shirts every day (and I only ever wear white shirts on shabbos/yom tov), would there be any room for leniency with regard to laundering shirts on Chol Hamoed this year, especially in light of R. Shlomo Fisher’s psak you quoted here (with the reasons for stringency you gave there being less applicable in this case)?:
https://dinonline.org/2010/09/12/washing-childrens-clothes/
Answer:
The idea presented by R’ Shlomo Fischer is generally used only as a tziruf. In the case of the question, where a person has four shirts and the question is concerning one day of Chol Ha-Mo’ed, one cannot rely on this, and one should either buy an extra shirt before Yom Tov, or wear one of the shirts for two days.
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Thanks. Would there be any more room for leniency if one follows the psak of Rav Scheinberg that shirts are considered ‘bigdei zeiah’ as far as the nine days are concerned (http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=20287&st=&pgnum=165&hilite=)?
This is an interesting ruling that I was not aware of. I don’t think, however, that it was applied concerning Chol Ha-Mo’ed, but will check it up.
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