Q. This year (82) Rosh Chodesh Av falls on Friday, can youngsters still go swimming in the lake before Shabbat?
A. If those children are of the age that they understand the meaning and prohibitions of the Nine Days, they should not do them even in this particular year.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.