Related%20passage for Taanit 25:13

אמר רבא אבל מותר לרחוץ בצונן כל שבעה מידי דהוה אבשרא וחמרא מיתיבי

You will find that the same applies to one placed under the ban and also to the mourner. Now does not [this last statement] imply that they are subject to all [the restrictions mentioned previously]? This being so, of what [water does the Baraitha] speak? Shall we say warm water? Is it then permissible [for a mourner] to wash his face, hands or feet [in warm water]? Did not R'Shesheth say: The mourner may not put even his finger into warm water? Therefore [it must speak of] cold water!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [This shows that on a public fast day. as in the case of a mourner, bathing in cold water is forbidden in opposition to R. Hisda.]');">⁷</span> - No; it refers indeed to warm water, and as for your difficulty in interpreting, 'and the same applies to one placed under the ban and also to the mourner', [you must take] this to refer only to the remaining restrictions<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., working and wearing shoes.');">⁸</span> [and not to bathing]. Come and hear: R'Abba the Priest said in the name of R'Jose the Priest: It happened that the sons of R'Jose B'Hanina died and he bathed in cold water throughout the seven days [of mourning]! - In his case one bereavement followed close on the other. For it has been taught: Where a man suffers one bereavement close upon another and his hair weighs heavy upon him he may thin them out with a razor and he may also wash his clothes in water. R'Hisda said: With a razor but not with scissors, in water but not in natron nor in sand. Raba said: A mourner may bathe in cold water all the seven days in the same way as he may partake of meat and wine. An objection was raised against this:

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