#5524 Clash on the Wash!
Question
I wonder if on this year (2025) on Erev Shabbos Chazon, I can take a hot shampoo shower by the hot mikva, as I usually do? How about staying some time on the steam bath?
Answer
Remah (Shulchan Aruch O.H. 551: 16) rules that one should only wash even with cold water one’s head, hands and feet.
Yet, he adds that for those who costume to do so always, due to their sweat, they can use warm water on Erev Shabbos.
Poskim permit immersing in a Mikva for one who always does so even if just warm. Steam bath is prohibited.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: August 1, 2025
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