Bais HaVaad on the Parsha, Parshas Dvarim

When Tisha B’Av Falls on Sunday

July 31, 2025

Excerpted and adapted from a shiur by Rav Yosef Jacobovits

This year, with Tisha B’Av on Sunday, many special halachos apply; here are some of them.

One must complete seudah shlishis before shkiah, when the issur to eat begins. The other prohibitions begin at tzeis hakochavim.

In prewar Europe, when Tisha B’Av was on Sunday, people generally wore Shabbos clothes on motza’ei Shabbos at Ma’ariv, which was davened at the regular time. But in recent years, many shuls have adopted the practice of davening Ma’ariv a few minutes later, giving people time to go home, change clothes, and drive back to shul. As a result, different minhagim have developed as to whether one should remove Shabbos clothes immediately after Shabbos or wear them for the rest of the evening.

This year, havdalah is not made until Sunday night, because drinking wine is forbidden, but one does recite the bracha of borei me’orei ha’eish after Shabbos. Although there are different minhagim about whether to stand or sit for havdalah (based on the question of which is the greater kvius), for this borei me’orei ha’eish everyone should sit, because sitting is considered more of a kvius for a single bracha.

One should not fully clean up after Shabbos, because this takes the mind off mourning (Aruch Hashulchan O.C. 554). On Sunday after chatzos hayom, when the mourning is less strict, it is permitted. R’ Shmuel Kamenetsky permits turning on the dishwasher.