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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:25 pm
Floors are filthy beyond. Can I wash the floors now? I'm not being home for shabbos
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:36 pm
If you're not home for shabbes anyway, then why? it's not preparing for shabbes, it's preparing for Sunday or whenever you come back.
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effess
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:41 pm
There’s a minhag amongst women tracing back many generations that they clean their houses spotless on tisha bav before evening in preparation of Moshiach.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:43 pm
effess wrote: | There’s a minhag amongst women tracing back many generations that they clean their houses spotless on tisha bav before evening in preparation of Moshiach. | I'm adapting that minhag. I must wash my floors. Ill be way embarrassed for mashiach to see my house in such a state.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:44 pm
amother Rose wrote: | If you're not home for shabbes anyway, then why? it's not preparing for shabbes, it's preparing for Sunday or whenever you come back. | I'm asking if that's a problem.
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bebrave
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 1:45 pm
amother OP wrote: | I'm adapting that minhag. I must wash my floors. Ill be way embarrassed for mashiach to see my house in such a state. |
You can't 'adapt' a minhag!
Ask a rav or get a cleaning lady to do it for you
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 2:05 pm
Op, sorry I dont know the answer.
But Im in bed with a headache, cant fathom how you feel ok to mop!
Fastwell
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Elfrida
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 2:20 pm
I always clean the floors the day before. If I'm going to be sitting on the floor, I want to know that it will be reasonably clean.
I always thought the minhag to clean the house in honour of the coming of Mashiach was a Yerushalmi minhag. It's well established there, but I have heard of it being done elsewhere.
Note. I have the very great honour of living in Yerushalayim, but I'm not a real Yerushalmi. So I don't clean the floors on Tisha b'Av. Now the fast is over, I'm contemplating what needs to be done before Shabbos.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 2:39 pm
Somehow I don't see mashiach coming into everyone's houses. I rather see everyone going out to greet him. I don't think we need to be worried about the humiliation of mashiach seeing our messy houses. JMHO of course.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 3:19 pm
effess wrote: | There’s a minhag amongst women tracing back many generations that they clean their houses spotless on tisha bav before evening in preparation of Moshiach. |
I was taught this as a child as well, in chul.
These days I live in Jerusalem, but my floors were clean today, so I didn't....
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NechaMom
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 3:51 pm
amother Rose wrote: | Somehow I don't see mashiach coming into everyone's houses. I rather see everyone going out to greet him. I don't think we need to be worried about the humiliation of mashiach seeing our messy houses. JMHO of course. |
My thoughts too. What makes you think he’s coming into every home? If you want to prepare , you should rather pack a suitcase than wash the floors.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 3:53 pm
I washed my floors Tuesday night for this reason. Today I swept a little so that tonight I won't have to clean while recuperating. Who can wash floors while fasting? That takes a ton of energy.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 4:00 pm
I remember my grand mother a'h basically pesach cleaning the house on tisha b'av afternoon in honor of moshiach too. It is not a baseless minag. But even if you do not hold of this minag there is no issur to clean your house after chatzos. The issur is on washing our bodies.
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Hashem_Yaazor
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 5:28 pm
amother Ecru wrote: | I remember my grand mother a'h basically pesach cleaning the house on tisha b'av afternoon in honor of moshiach too. It is not a baseless minag. But even if you do not hold of this minag there is no issur to clean your house after chatzos. The issur is on washing our bodies. |
There's still an inyan some hold of not washing floors as part of rechitza (like laundry) the whole 9 days. Those who are makpid will still not mop the floors even if they're doing other cleaning of the house.
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amother
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Thu, Jul 27 2023, 5:29 pm
bebrave wrote: | You can't 'adapt' a minhag!
Ask a rav or get a cleaning lady to do it for you |
Why? After chatzos we can do regular housework and cleaning.
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amother
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Fri, Jul 28 2023, 12:41 am
I mopped up the watermelon juice that spilt all over. Felt weird mopping on TB but couldn't deal with a sticky floor
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effess
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Fri, Jul 28 2023, 1:03 am
amother Ecru wrote: | I remember my grand mother a'h basically pesach cleaning the house on tisha b'av afternoon in honor of moshiach too. It is not a baseless minag. But even if you do not hold of this minag there is no issur to clean your house after chatzos. The issur is on washing our bodies. |
I love learning about these minhagim. Can you tell us where your grandmother is from? Where she lived? I find this fascinating
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