Section: Questions Category: Halacha
TAGS:Tisha B'Av | Halacha - Fast Days | | Submitted by sm Answered by Rav Peretz Moncharsh | | Question: Dear Rabbi, Can one put on Chapstick on a Fast Day, like Tisha B'Av or Yom Kippur? Thank you.
| | Answer: The issue with chapstick would not be eating, as it is not ingested nor edible. However, there would be an issue with annointing. Presuming it is being done to avoid painfully chapped lips and not for pleasure, it would be allowed on Tisha b'Av but not on Yom Kippur.
| | posted:2011-08-09 13:48:03 |
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