R' Meir says: We may examine negaim for the first time in order to render a lenient verdict, but not to render a stringent one.  The Sages say: [We may] not [examine a nega whether] for a lenient or for a stringent verdict.  R' Meir also said: A person may gather his father's and mother's bones [for burial], as it is a [source of] joy for him.  R' Yose says: It is [a source of] mourning for him.  A person may not inspire [lamentations] for his dead [relative], nor eulogize him during the thirty days preceding a festival.

We may not hew burial niches nor [build] tombs during [Chol] HaMoed; but we may adapt burial niches during [Chol] HaMoed; dig wash ponds during [Chol] HaMoed; and [construct] a coffin in the courtyard with the deceased.  R' Yehudah prohibits [the latter], unless the boards are at hand.

We may not take wives during [Chol] HaMoed, neither virgins nor widows, nor may levirate marriage be entered into, because it is a [source of] joy for the one who does. However, one may remarry his divorcee.  A woman may make her adornments during [Chol] HaMoed.  R' Yehudah says: She may not apply lime, because it is a disfigurement to her.

An unskilled person may sew in his usual manner, but an artisan may sew only with irregular stitches.  We may interlace [supports for] beds.  R' Yose says: We may even tighten them.

We may set up an oven, a stove, or millstones during [Chol] HaMoed.  R' Yehudah says: We may not roughen the millstones initially.

We may build a railing for a roof or for a balcony in an unskilled manner, but not in a professional manner. We may replaster the cracks and roll them [as if] with a roller, with the hand and the foot, but not with a trowel.  A hinge, or a socket, or a beam, or a lock, or a key that broke may be repaired during [Chol] HaMoed, provided that one does not plan his work for [Chol] HaMoed.  All pickled foods that can be eaten during the festival may be pickled [during Chol HaMoed].

One who turned over his olives [to soften them] and then mourning befell him, or an accident [befell him], or [his] workers misled him, may place the first beam and leave it until after the festival. This is the opinion of R' Yehudah.  R' Yose says: He may pour [the olives into the press], complete [the process], and seal [the barrels] in his usual manner.

Similarly, one whose wine was in the vat and then mourning befell him, or an accident [befell him], or [his] workers misled him, may pour [the wine into barrels], complete [its processing], and seal [the barrels] in his usual manner. This is the opinion of R' Yose.  R' Yehudah says: He may cover [the barrels] with boards so that [the wine] does not sour.

A person may bring in his fruit because of thieves, and remove his flax from the soaking pond so that it does not become ruined, provided he does not plan his work for [Chol] HaMoed. In all these cases, if they planned their work for [Chol] HaMoed, it shall be forfeited.

We may not purchase homes, nor slaves, nor domestic animals, except for use during the festival, or [to provide] for the needs of the seller who [otherwise] has nothing to eat.  We may not move [objects] from one house to another, but one may move [objects from one house to another] within his courtyard.  We may not bring vessels from the artisan's shop; but if one fears for them, he may move them into a different courtyard.

We may cover drying figs with straw.  R' Yehudah says: We may even stack them. Vendors of fruit, clothing, and utensils may sell [their wares] in private, for use during the festival. Trappers, cereal makers, and bean pounders may ply their trade in private for festival needs.  R' Yose says: They imposed a stringency upon themselves.

These [people] may cut their hair during [Chol] HaMoed: One who arrived from abroad; [was released] from captivity; left prison; or the excommunicate whose ban was lifted by the sages. Similarly, one who applied to a sage and had been released [from his vow]; the nazir or the metzora who returns from [a state of] contamination to [a state of] purity.

And these [people] may launder [their clothing] during [Chol] HaMoed: One who arrived from abroad; [was released] from captivity; left prison; or the excommunicate whose ban was lifted by sages. Similarly, one who applied to a sage and was released [from his vow].  Hand towels, barbers' cloths, and bath towels [may also be laundered].  Zavim, zavos, menstruants, women who have given birth, and all who return from [a state of] contamination to [a state of] purity, these are permitted [to launder their clothing], but all others are forbidden.

And these [documents] may be written during [Chol] HaMoed: Instruments of betrothal, divorces, receipts, testaments, gifts, prozbulin, evaluation documents, support documents, chalitzah certificates, refusals, selection contracts, court edicts, and government documents.

We may not write loan contracts during [Chol] HaMoed. However, if he does not trust him, or if he has nothing to eat, then he may write.  We may not write Books [of Scripture], nor tefillin, nor mezuzos during [Chol] HaMoed. We may not correct a single letter even in the [Torah] scroll of the Temple court. R' Yehudah says: A person may write tefillin or mezuzos for his personal use; and he may spin the blue thread for his tzitzis, on his thigh.

He who buries his dead [relative] three days before a festival has the edict of seven [days of mourning] annulled. [He who buries his dead relative] eight [days before a festival] has the edict of thirty [days of mourning] annulled. [This is so] because they said: Sabbath is included [in the period of mourning] but does not interrupt [it]. Festivals [however] interrupt but are not included.