Bleh

[theyellowhobbit]

I feel sick. Last night I was hungry when I got back home, and we had dinner, but I was still hungry. So I made myself more food, ate it, and was still hungry. So I drank a lot of water, and had some popsicles, but I was still hungry. At that point I just gave up and went to bed.

I woke up about an hour before my alarm this morning, so I drank some water while I was up and went back to bed. When I woke up for real, I was still thirsty, and then after drinking water and taking a shower, I started feeling nauseous.

The good news is that I don't have work today, so there's no real consequence of me being sick, besides that it's uncomfortable. Right now I'm drinking ginger ale, in the hope that it will make me better able to hydrate myself.

This is why I shouldn't go to bed hungry or thirsty. But I was so tired last night that it was hard to eat or drink! I just wanted sleep!
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In other news, last night started the 9 days of Av. There are a bunch of restrictions on what observant Jews can't do during this time period, including eating meat and drinking wine (except for on Shabbat or for a siyum) bathing (for pleasure, that is. You can bathe out of necessity for hygiene, but even then there are restrictions), wearing freshly laundered clothes/doing laundry (even if it's for after the 9 days), buying new clothes, playing or listening to music, and making new garments. There are other restrictions as well.

The ones that are really tricky for me are the bathing, making new garments, and eating meat, in that order.

Bathing I've pretty much decided to do as normal, though maybe using colder water than normal and trying to take a shorter shower. Though I shower when I wake up, so it takes a while when I'm not fully conscious.

Making new garments would include knitting. But I'm pretty sure the restriction is mostly on making them for Jews and making them for profit. If you're working on something that you know you're not going to finish in the 9 days, I don't think it's as problematic, nor is making something for charity. Or you could take "garment" literally, and thus could make dishcloths and blankets.

I've gotten heters (permission from Rabbis to do something that might otherwise be forbidden) before to knit/crochet. But I'm not 100% sure what the basis for those heters was. And a friend is in a similar situation, though she's in a place where the local rabbis are Chabad, and probably won't give her a heter. So I'm "psak-shopping" for the both of us now.

And after writing this, I still feel sick. :(

Comments

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

I think the new clothes thing has to do with shehecheyanu, so if you're just working on something, that wouldn't be a problem. But the Mishnah Berurah would tell you, probably.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

I think you're right, though unfortunately I don't have access to a mishnah berurah.

[rivka-m.livejournal.com]

1. seems the new clothes rule has the status of minhag, which gives more leeway.

2. at least in the shulchan aruch, as far as I can tell, the problem is only with *wearing* the clothes, not making them.

3. check it out: http://www.torah.org/advanced/shulchan-aruch/classes/orachchayim/chapter39.html

[crewgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, so the iPod sock (actually a glorified rectangle with two seams) that I hope to finish by the end of the week shouldn't be too problematic - I mean, it's not a garment....

Also, were you able to knit/crochet on the way back from Israel?