Bathing during the thirty days for a girl of marriageable age
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Question
A girl of marriageable age is in mourning for thirty days. Is she allowed to bathe in hot water?
Answer
Her status is like all mourners, and she should not bathe in hot water according to Ashkenazi custom, but it is customary to be lenient with cold water in cold places.
Source
The custom to prohibit bathing during the thirty days applies to women as well, as evidenced in Rema, Siman 581, paragraph 5. There is no distinction between an adult girl and an ordinary woman.
Similarly, Chochmat Adam, Klal 165:5, writes: "An adult girl who is in mourning, since she is about to marry, is permitted to apply makeup and adorn herself, but is prohibited from bathing her whole body in hot water, and according to our custom, for all thirty days."
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