Shabbat Chazon

Source: Halachipedia: Shabbat Chazon

Link: https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Shabbat_Chazon

Categories: Holidays, Shabbat

Exported: 2025-12-30

The week before Tisha BeAv is called Shabbat Chazon. Its title is based on the first word of the Haftorah that is read that week (Yishayhu 1). It is the last of the three Haftorot with messages of rebuke of the prophets of the sins of the Jewish people and the destruction of the Bet Hamikdash that are read during the Three Weeks.

Wearing Shabbat Clothing, Freshly Laundered Clothing, New Clothing

Preparing Non-Laundered Clothing

Taking a Shower before Shabbat Chazon

1. On Friday before Shabbat Chazon some permit someone who always takes a shower on Friday to take a shower before Shabbat.¹ See
2. If Tisha BeAv falls out on Shabbat and is pushed off until Sunday, according to Sephardim, it's proper not to take a hair cut the week prior to Shabbat Chazon. However, in regards to shaving, if one shaves regularly and it's difficult not to shave, one may shave during the week before Shabbat Chazon, especially if one is doing so for Kavod Shabbat. See sources on the Nine_Days page.

Other Practices

1. It is permissible and recommended to have the same foods and sing the same songs one does every other week on Shabbat Chazon and not detract from its honor because it is the Shabbat before Tisha BeAv.²

References

¹: Rivevot Efraim 4:139 citing Rav Moshe (Rav Eider's Ben Hametzarim p. 13) and Rav Henkin (Approbation of Nechema Yosef)

²: halachayomit citing Chida and Rav Ovadia Yosef (Chazon Ovadia Arba Taniyot p. 155)