Shaving on Motzaei Tisha B’Av

Over 3 weeks my beard grows really huge and it drives me absolutely crazy. So I wanted to mention that it is permitted to shave your beard right after the 9th of Av at night even though regular hair cutting and eating meat and drinking wine is prohibited until after chatzos of the following day.

The Chida in Machzikei Bracha (OH 458:4) write as follows: “In a city where the custom is to eat meat on the nigh of the 10th of Av and a particular person has the custom not to, as long as he did not accept this custom (i.e. to wait until the following day) as a neder and it happened to him that his period of mourning (for a family member) was over during the 9 days (i.e. he could not cut his hair before the week of 9th of Av). Since the custom in these cities to shave beards with either a chemical or scissors these people have great pain not to be able to shave, and therefore it seems to me that they would be permitted to shave their beards right after the 9th of Av at night, since it’s only a custm and the main halacha permits it anyway. Etc…”

The Shaarey Teshuva (OH 458:2) makes the same point as the Chida, and he adds from the Hagahos Maimoniyos that shaving would permitted even if the person has the custom not to eat meat until after chatzos on the following day, because one has nothing to do with the other.

So this implies since our practice is to shave all the time and it really bothers us when we can’t do it for a long time it would seem from this Chid and the Shaarei Teshuva that we can shave right after Tisha B’Av even though we don’t cut out regular hair and eat meat until the following day.