Daily Halacha with Rabbi Raymond Haber

Buying g and selling is forbidden on hol hamoed. Collecting loans that were to be paid back in merchandise is forbidden, unless not collecting may lead to a loss.

המכוין מלאכתו והניחה למועד ועשאה במועד ב"ד מאבדין אותה ממנו ומפקירים אותה לכל: הגה ואם הוא עושה מלאכות אחרים שאי אפשר לקנסו כגון חייט או סופר שעושה מלאכת אחרים משמתינן ליה ומלקין אותו. (ב"י ור"י) ואם מת לא יקנסו בנו אחריו ומותר לו לעשותה אם הוא דבר האבד: 6. If one planned his work such that it would be left for hol hamoed and did it on hol hamoed, the court destroys what he accomplished, repossess...

Davar Habed In wine and Olive production can be done regularly Same for flax that's been soaking . Moving merchandise that can be stolen. Covering drying fruit from rain. Turning merchandise to protect from mold etc.

One may not open an entrance for the water to enter a field for irrigation, but if doing to catch fish in the field and an exit is made as well, it is permitted. One may not smooth the field for plowing, but one may smooth for threshing. One may not gather wood to improve the field but its permitted to burn, if some are left in field. One may not prune tree to improve it, but may trim branches for...

Watering vegetables that will be used on hol hamoed is ok. It is forbidden to make the ditches around the bases of the grapevines, but one can fix existing ones. One may fix existing water irrigation channels up to 5 extra tefachim. One can draw water from tree to tree but not the whole field.

Laws of Davar Haaved. Watering an irrigated field. Only from a spring. Only with a stream not with a pail.

Combing animal is permitted on hol hamoed. Manual mating of animals is forbidden on hol hamoed. Laws of putting chickens back on eggs to hatch.

No moving from apartment to apartment on hol hamoed. Animals can be foyted for riding on hol hamoed .

Exceptions who can wash clothing on hol hamoed. Washing in public. Washing diapers. Picking up things from workman stores

Professional food producers, produce in private. No washing clothes on hol hamoed. Exceptions.

Pickering fruits and preserving them on hol hamoed. Fishing on hol hamoed.

Grinding making cutting wood doing other food related activities on hol hamoed

While can take haircuts, where children. Mustache. Cutting nails.

Mitzvah to take a haircut on erev holiday. We cannot take haircuts or shave on hol hamoed. Who can.

Is melacha on hol hamoed deorayta or derabanan. Mitzvah to celebrate hol hamoed with special clothing and food.

Taanit Chalom. Simcha should be uplifting. Keeping men and women separated.

Laws of being happy on Yom tov.

Necessity of other eruvin a d permissibilaty of making them kn Holiday. The obligation to be happy on Yom Tov. Half for you and half for Hashem.

It's long realized he did not make the before eating in the morning he and cook a lot for the morning. If one realized he did not make the eruv on the 1st day of the holiday he can make the eruv on a condition that if today is holiday and tomorrow is weekday he doesn't need the eruv. and if today is weekday and tomorrow is holiday so hes making the eruv . If I cook from holiday Tisha about on purp...

Lighting candles. One who forgot eruv Tavshilin cannot cook. He gives his Food to others who have made the eruv and they cook for him and give it back to him.

The eruv must be intact in order to cook for shabbat. Some say in can light candles without eruv Tavshilin.

One may not cook from Thursday for shabbat even with eruv Tavshilin. Ideally the eruv Tavshilin should be made on erev hag

Who can acquire eruv for others. It must be lifted a טפח. What we say when making eruv Tavshilin

The Gadol Ha'ir makes eruv for all the people who forget to make an eruv. He doesn't need to specify people.

Eruv Tavshilin should have bread and cooked food. Minimum amount is Kazayit. Must be a food that is eaten with bread. Roasted cooked pickled and smoked are acceptable. Even things that are edible without cooking are acceptable if cooked. One can really on the lentils left in the bottom of the pot.