Therapeutic session on Chol HaMoed
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Question
I work as a mentor for a young woman with physical and intellectual disabilities. I come to her three times a week, sit with her, listen to her, and she sees this as emotional therapy. On the days I don’t come, it is very hard for her, and she keeps asking her parents when I will come because she needs to talk to me. Her parents are secular, and they also need rest, which they get only when I am there. May I go to her and work as her mentor on Chol HaMoed (the laws of Chol HaMoed, emotional therapy, great need)?
Answer
Shalom u’vracha
You may come to her on Chol HaMoed.
For all the reasons mentioned in the question.
This is a need for mental/emotional healing. It is a festival need for the parents, and it is also a festival need for the daughter.
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