New answers tagged shabbat
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Regarding your sidebar about conversion: Decisions about conversion need to be made with the guidance of a competent rabbi who knows you. If you are serious about converting, and you don't already know a rabbi, I implore you to get in touch with a rabbi in your area, or as close to your area as possible. Relationships build over time, but first contact must ...
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For practical advice you need to consult a rabbi, but here is some general information.
Certain prayers/blessings, including the one said after lighting Shabbat candles, contain the phrase "who has commanded us". Gentiles haven't been commanded, so (a) saying it isn't accurate for you, and (b) you might be taking God's name in vain by saying it. (What ...
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Indeed, as SethJ and ShmuelBrin noted in their comments, the Gemara (Eruvin 11b) discusses such a case. Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 362:12) summarizes it thus:
כיפה, אם יש ברגליה דהיינו קודם שהתחיל להתעגל י' טפחים, מותרת משום צורת פתח
"An archway, if its legs - before it begins to curve - are at least ten tefachim tall, then it is permissible as a ...
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Once again, see Rabbi Torczyner's lecture on attending conferences.
While debated by medieval rabbis, it appears that we conclude it is permissible to study science or medicine on Shabbat. (Assuming it's being done for the right reasons, assuming you're not writing, that it's not "business talk", and the like.) There had been a discussion whether an ...
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See Rabbi Torczyner's lecture on attending conferences.
If I understood and recall his lecture correctly, generally speaking, where necessary it would be permissible, assuming that the speaker would be using the same electronic devices regardless of your presence.
(Rabbi Torczyner always starts with "ask your local synagogue rabbi for actual psak", of ...
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See The Kesef Mishna in Hilchos Shabbas perek 1:7 he brings HaRav Avraham Hachasid(Rambams son) he explains psik reisha doesn't need the actual melacha ,he brings the case of closing a door on a deer.By melacha shaina tricha it is the melcha you want but not its purpose,ayin sham.
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The Baal HaTanya, in his Piskei HaSiddur, Hilcheta Rabbata L'Shabbata, rules that one should remove a fly from cup of wine by spilling out the wine until the fly leaves the cup.
Since he is holding the cup of wine, and want the wine and not the cup, this is considered manually separating Food from Waste, which is permitted on Shabbat, if one wants to ...
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Opening an umbrella on Shabbat is generally considered to be forbidden because of building. The linked article notes that while the g'mara (not specifically cited) does permit opening a folding chair, even though that creates a "tent" over the ground below, the purpose of opening the chair isn't to create the tent, while the purpose of erecting a structure ...
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In Mishnah Berurah 243:2 it says that to have a Mumar do work on Shabbos (even if it were permitted to have a non-Jew do the same work) there is Lefnei Iver Lo Sitein Michshol.
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I found this but it doesn't exactly say the logic you listed in the question
Shemot Rabba 25:121; Yerushalmi, Ta’anit 1:10 “Though I have set a limit to ‘the end,’ that it will happen in its time regardless of whether they will do teshuvah or not… the scion of David (Mashiach) will come if they keep just one Shabbat, because the Shabbat is equivalent to all ...
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what would you need a projector for if you cannot play anything?
is this a slide projector, tv projector?
the quick answer is no, you cannot 'use' it, since you are not allowed to play with the tv or computer, and an overhead projector is not slide projector.
hope that helps
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I would like to build off of SethJ's answer. The idea is not that the milachas are based on the construction of the Mishkan. Rather, the construction of the mishkan is how we know what the milachas are. What is forbidden on Shabbat is constructive labor (independent of anything having to do with the Mishkan).
Now, to answer your question about the golden ...
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I once heard a tape by Rabbi Uziel Milvsky of ohr somayach entitle "the Sabbath". There he brings down that there is holiness in space (temple) and there is holiness in time (shabbat). The Sabbath is the temple in time. This is why there is so much parallels between the two. He didn't get into it much more than that, because it is probably heavily mystical ...
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This is what it says in Shulchan Aruch Yore Deah 113:5:
If a non-Jew cooks but he did not intend to cook -it's permissible (e.g. he lit a fire in a field to get rid of the grass/hay and Chagavim were cooked -they are permitted).. But if his intention was to cook -it's prohibited (e.g. he lit a fire to bake bread and he didn't have any knowledge that there ...
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The doors operate on a infrared sensor.
'Technically' by walking in front of them, even 'piggybacking' when the infra hits you, it resets the timer for the doors to close. there really is no avoidance to this, especially if there is a fire alarm on the back door, and the windows are barred.
Since there is no way around it, Ultraorthodox will avoid having ...
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I think I understand your question to be leaning more towards philosophy, however the question works in a broader sense as well, so I'll answer the basic question as worded in the heading, "Why are Melochos based on the construction of the Mishkan?"
The simplest answer to this question is that the Mishkan needed to be constructed almost entirely from ...
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According to one rav, a goy can keep shabbos without doing a single melecha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUWtj1qiFcM
I just thought I'd throw this out there.
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As noted in the comments, using electricity is melacha and thus forbidden on Shabbat. See this question for more information about why electricity is prohibited. Since, so far, it is not possible to ask and answer questions on Mi Yodeya without using electricity, the Shabbat-observant participants here do not engage in those activities on Shabbat. (Or Yom ...
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When I teach the 39 Melochos to teenagers I give the following introduction. The definition of what is allowed or not allowed to do on Shabbos is not defined by what we call work. For example, if your mother asks you to wash the dishes would you consider that 'work'? (I typically get a loud 'yes'); Yet it is permissie to wash dishes on Shabbos! Now, if I put ...
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The short answer is that, due to the juxtaposition of the command to build the Mishkan (tabernacle) to the prohibition of violating the Sabbath, we derive that any activity associated with creating the Mishkan is prohibited on the Sabbath.
Here is a short summary.
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The English word "work" is a poor translation -- what is forbidden is a category of behavior which is called, in Hebrew, melacha. There are many attempts to translate it directly, beyond "work" including "creative actions" but none gets to the heart of the concept. There are particular categories and sub categories which define what the specific behaviors ...
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The prohibition of using electricity is partially Rabbinic, partially not. (This is not to imply that Rabbinic prohibitions are unimportant).
However, there is a rule that if someone is sick (for certain degrees of illness) then Rabbinic prohibitions are permitted (are relaxed). This is not because they are unimportant but because when they were enacted in ...
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The Ezras Torah calendar in which the laws are supposed to be based of the opinions of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, gives permission to groom on the Friday before Lag B'Omer but not on the Friday before the three days of hagbalah. I would assume the the difference is because in the latter case the Friday is Rosh Chodesh and many prohibit grooming on any Rosh ...
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the inyan of shabbos is oneg. if eating bread for some reason causes one to lose their degree of enjoyment, then they shouldn't. the Cohanim had reasons to eat offered portions of grain, bread, meat, wine, oil, etc. The people of Israel have no particular requirement of what is to be eaten on Shabbos other than what brings them joy. the shoresh of joy, ...
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of course you can remove the sticker, it's not part of the fruit. you're not making something new, they are two whole and complete objects. the affixing of the sticker is not permanent, therefore it's not binyan or soser, much like tying and untying shoelaces.
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Rav Daniel Mann based on Rabbi Mordechai Willig says it is permitted.
The most serious issue is molid, creating a new reality by changing
the phase of an object. The baraita (Shabbat 51b) forbids crushing ice
and snow. Rashi explains that it is like a melacha, in that one
creates something new, i.e., a liquid from a solid. Some say that,
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Per Orach Chaim 274:4 both the evening meal and day meal require bread. The only meal where it is not a requirement according to some (Orach Chaim 291:5) is at Shalosh Seudos - the third meal.
This site is not in exchange for Rabbinic guidance. This answers the second question as to whether there is an obligation to wash for bread on Shabbos, which ...
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You probably already know the story of when Hashem created the world he made two great luminaries, and the moon complained how can two kings wear one crown.
After Hashem made the moon smaller the moon complained why the moon should have to be small. In answer Hashem told the moon that the Jewish people would sanctify the moon each month.
The deeper meaning ...
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If your idea is to, "find meaning in the molad or its announcement itself,", I think you need to look no further than the fact that we do it.
The point, I think, of these types of exercises, is to emulate the process that was done in the era of the Beith HaMikdash, not to replace what was done, but to make us aware of what is missing in our spiritual lives. ...
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Just an idea that comes to mind, the idea of kiddush ha'chodesh and the holidays in general is that we establish and sanctify time. This is reflected in the wording of the bracha of shmoneh esrai on holidays and rosh chodesh of "מקדש ישראל והזמנים - ...who sanctifies the Jewish people and the times" ie. God sanctifies us and we sanctify the times.
This ...
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Shmiras Shabbos Khilchasa (quoted by Rabbi Ribiat in his Sefer 39 Melachos) page 154-155 says it is permitted to add to a Ohel on Shabbos and therefore one may place a plastic covering over a stroller on Shabbos, so long the strollers own canopy is open already. He says the regular canopy can be opened as it is attached and then you place the plastic ...
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Being that no action is done, the question here is not a question of whether one would be transgressing a prohibition, but rather whether one would be permitted to derive benefit from the items which were affected by an apparent violation (הנאה).
In a broad sense, the halachot of deriving benefit from a transgression are fairly clear (see Shulchan Aruch 276 ...
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Shulchan Aruch OC 339:4 rules that one should not perform Kiddushin (betrothal) or Nissuin (marriage) on Shabbat or Yom Tov. However he notes that if one did so, even on purpose, it works and the couple is fully married.
The prohibition originates in the Mishna (Beitza 5:2). The Babylonian Talmud (36b per Tosfot) explains that this is a rabbinic prohibition ...
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Rav Dovid Feinstein was asked this question and he answers in the sefer L'Torah V'Horaah pg.28
The person asked what should he say since the Biur Halacha ends with a tzarich iyun.
Rav Dovid answered ,it seems to be reliant on a machlokes Rishonim.Is it a tashlumim or do we say a chyiuv is on him still.He brings the Rosh from perek mi shameisu siman 2 that ...
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