{"id":17896,"date":"2026-06-28T00:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ish-tsadik.org.il\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=17896"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:58:20","slug":"haircuts-on-minor-fast-days-and-on-the-17th-of-tammuz","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.ish-tsadik.org.il\/en\/faq\/haircuts-on-minor-fast-days-and-on-the-17th-of-tammuz\/","title":{"rendered":"Haircuts on Minor Fast Days and on the 17th of Tammuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ruach Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Palagi (Siman 566), he is stringent on this matter and brings proof for a prohibition. However, in practice, the authorities rule leniently, and therefore one may get a haircut both on the eve of the fast and on the fast day itself, as written by the Turei Even (Rosh Hashanah 18a) that there is no mention in the Halachic authorities to forbid this. Nevertheless, a pious soul (Ba&#8217;al Nefesh) should be stringent not to get a haircut on the 17th of Tammuz itself, as Maran the Mishnah Berurah (Siman 550) wrote that we apply stringencies to the 17th of Tammuz similar to Tisha B&#8217;Av.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-17896","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Haircuts on Minor Fast Days and on the 17th of Tammuz - Ish Tsadik<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ish-tsadik.org.il\/en\/faq\/haircuts-on-minor-fast-days-and-on-the-17th-of-tammuz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Haircuts on Minor Fast Days and on the 17th of Tammuz - Ish Tsadik\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Ruach Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Palagi (Siman 566), he is stringent on this matter and brings proof for a prohibition. 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