– Q. Dear Rabbi Shlit”a. Can one clean a hat or a coat with a brush during the Nine Days.

A. Poskim indeed permit the above. (Nitei Gavriel 35: 12).

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a