Commentary for Taanit 58:9

בשני בשלישי ברביעי ובחמישי לפניו אסור לאחריו מותר חל להיות בערב שבת מותר לכבס בחמישי מפני כבוד השבת ואם לא כבס בחמישי בשבת מותר לכבס בערב שבת מן המנחה ולמעלה לייט עלה אביי ואיתימא רב אחא בר יעקב אהא

An objection was raised against this: The week in which the Ninth of Ab falls it is not permissible to cut the hair or to wash clothes, but on Thursday it is permissible in honour of t Sabbath. How is this to be understood? Should it fall on Sunday it is permissible to wash clothes the whole of the week, [but should it fall] on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday, before it it is not permissible, but after it, it is permissible; [should it fall] on Friday it is permissible to wash clothes on Thursday in honour of the Sabbath; if however he has not washed them on the Thursday it is permissible to wash them on the Friday from the hour of Minhah onwards.

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