Halakhah for Moed Katan 9:2
אמר ר' יעקב אמר ר' יוחנן לא שנו אלא שאין רבים צריכין להם אבל רבים צריכין להם אפילו חפירה מותר
[That is to say only] to repair, but not to be dug [afresh]. Said R'Jacob as reporting R'Johanan: This was taught only where there is no public need; but where there is public need<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'where the public needs them.' Though there be no immediate need for it, yet 'cleaning out' may be done in the festival week.');"><sup>2</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
Its laws are also short. Its content is generally that a man choose for himself in all of his matters and in all of his actions - whether in eating, drinking, [commerce], words of Torah, prayer, conversation or in any other thing - the good and moderate path; and never to remove himself to the extremes. And about this general principal, they, may their memory be blessed, said (Sotah 5b) that a man always examine his dispositions - meaning to say that he think about his affairs, to do them in the moderate and good path. And they based this upon a verse, as it is written (Psalms 50:23), "and to him who orders his way, I will show him the salvation of God" - they expounded (Moed Katan 5a), 'Do not read it [as] "and orders (vesam)," but rather "and evaluates (vesham)."'
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