Shabbat הלכות שבת
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242Being Careful About the Honor of ShabbatSiman 242 · 8 seifim
- 1.It is said in Isaiah: "And you shall call…
- 2.Even though there is no strict halachic requirement to…
- 3.It is proper to eat fish on Shabbat. If…
- 4.One who has no cash on hand to buy…
- 5.Every Jewish man is obligated in the honor and…
- 6.It is proper to sweep the house and the…
- 7.It is an enactment of Ezra the Scribe that…
- 8.It is very proper, if possible, to knead and…
243One Who Rents Out a Field or Shop to a Non-JewSiman 243 · 1 seifim
Read this siman →244Work That a Non-Jew Does for a JewSiman 244 · 15 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to allow a non-Jew to do…
- 2.All this applies specifically to work on a detached…
- 3.If one hired a non-Jew under contract to do…
- 4.A factory operating with fully automatic machines, requiring no…
- 5.It is permissible to entrust a non-Jew with feeding…
- 6.It is permitted for a Jew to hand over…
- 7.Work done on a detached item, for the purpose…
- 8.One who poured a roof [concrete slab], and needs…
- 9.Some say it is permitted to give one's clothing…
- 10.One who contracts with a non-Jew to build his…
- 11.A non-Jew who washes the stairwell floor on Shabbat,…
- 12.A non-Jewish domestic worker employed in a Jewish home…
- 13.A non-Jewish domestic worker employed in a Jewish home,…
- 14.Likewise it is permitted to tell her to wash…
- 15.It is permitted to hire a non-Jew to write…
246Renting to a Non-Jew on ShabbatSiman 246 · 2 seifim
Read this siman →+The Resting of One's Animal on ShabbatSiman 246 (continued) · 13 seifim
- 1.Every Jewish person is commanded regarding the resting of…
- 2.A resident of outside the Land who has an…
- 3.A non-Jewish ruler who asked his Jewish neighbor for…
- 4.The mitzvah regarding the resting of one's animal applies…
- 5.The mitzvah regarding the resting of one's animal also…
- 6.Some say that if the animal goes out on…
- 7.The primary halachah is that the prohibition regarding the…
- 8.A person is also commanded regarding the resting of…
- 9.Some say that a woman is also obligated in…
- 10.It is permitted to rent out an apartment on…
- 11.It is permitted to buy a building containing offices,…
- 12.A Jew who contracted a non-Jew to manufacture soap…
- 13.In a case of need, it is permitted to…
248The Law of One Who Sets Sail on a Ship Before ShabbatSiman 248 · 11 seifim
- 1.It is permitted to travel on a steamship whose…
- 2.On Shabbat itself it is forbidden to begin a…
- 3.It is forbidden to fly on an airplane on…
- 4.A plane that has landed at the airport, and…
- 5.It is forbidden to ride an electric train operated…
- 6.A resident of outside the Land who lives far…
- 7.One does not besiege a city to wage war…
- 8.An infant who became ill and whose brit milah…
- 9.All the above applies specifically to a brit that…
- 10.Based on the above, it follows that from Thursday…
- 11.A caravan of non-Jews heading out into the desert,…
249Laws Pertaining to FridaySiman 249 · 8 seifim
- 1.One should not travel more than three parasahs on…
- 2.It is part of the honor of Shabbat to…
- 3.However, a mitzvah meal whose proper time falls on…
- 4.A pidyon haben meal not held at its proper…
- 5.An engagement or wedding meal is permitted to be…
- 6.It is the way of the pious and men…
- 7.If the Tenth of Tevet falls on Friday, one…
- 8.Some forbid delivering a eulogy on Friday after midday,…
250Preparing the Shabbat MealsSiman 250 · 7 seifim
- 1.One should rise early on Friday morning to prepare…
- 2.The sweat a person sweats while preparing for Shabbat…
- 3.Some say it is proper to buy all the…
- 4.Even a Torah scholar whose Torah is his profession…
- 5.It is permitted for a Torah scholar to engage…
- 6.It is a mitzvah to taste the Shabbat dishes…
- 7.Ideally, one should try to buy the Shabbat needs…
251Not Doing Work on Friday After MinchahSiman 251 · 7 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to do work on Friday from…
- 2.It is permitted to write words of Torah in…
- 3.Some say that specifically "melachah" (constructive labor) is forbidden…
- 4.Work involving an item that would otherwise be lost…
- 5.It is proper to get a haircut on Friday…
- 6.The custom has already spread to be lenient about…
- 7.Some are lenient to launder clothes in an automatic…
252Starting Work That Finishes on ShabbatSiman 252 · 13 seifim
- 1.It is permitted to start a process on Friday…
- 2.It is permitted to place, before Shabbat, a pot…
- 3.It is permitted to put wheat into a water…
- 4.For us it is permitted to put clothes into…
- 5.It is permitted to set an alarm clock before…
- 6.If one set the Shabbat timer before Shabbat to…
- 7.A telephone connected to a recording device called an…
- 8.Regarding what is common nowadays — special vending machines…
- 9.One should not listen to songs or news on…
- 10.It is forbidden to set a Shabbat timer before…
- 11.It is clearly forbidden to turn on a loudspeaker…
- 12.It is permitted to set an alarm clock before…
- 13.It is a mitzvah to check through one's clothing…
253Leaving a Dish on the Stove From Before ShabbatSiman 253 · 16 seifim
- 1.A dish that finished cooking fully before Shabbat, or…
- 2.But a dish containing meat that has not been…
- 3.A dish that began cooking, and cooked somewhat before…
- 4.A pot containing a fully cooked dish, where the…
- 5.An electric oven turned on from before Shabbat, containing…
- 6.An electric oven operated by a thermostat — some…
- 7.A baking oven whose flame rises immediately upon opening…
- 8.One should not return a dish on Shabbat into…
- 9.One who removes a pot from the fire on…
- 10.A dish sitting on a lit flame, where during…
- 11.For a dry dish, such as the chamin made…
- 12.It is permitted, even on Shabbat, to place a…
- 13.A dish sitting on the hotplate that has reduced…
- 14.It is forbidden to pour boiling water on Shabbat…
- 15.Everything forbidden for a Jew among the matters mentioned…
- 16.One who rises in the morning and sees that…
257Laws of Insulating Food (Hatmanah)Siman 257 · 11 seifim
- 1.Fruits that are eaten as they are, raw, may…
- 2.One may not insulate food on Shabbat, even with…
- 3.Ideally, one should not place a blanket or clothing…
- 4.Even though one may not insulate on Shabbat, even…
- 5.A pot of chamin sitting on an electric hotplate…
- 6.It is permitted to place a canned food container…
- 7.If one insulated a dish with heat-adding material from…
- 8.It has already been explained above that it is…
- 9.It is permitted to pour boiling water on Shabbat…
- 10.A dish transferred to a different pot, even while…
- 11.It is a mitzvah to insulate food for Shabbat…
260Laws of the Entry of ShabbatSiman 260 · 5 seifim
- 1.It is a mitzvah to bathe one's entire body…
- 2.If one's head hair has grown long, it is…
- 3.If one's nails have grown long, it is a…
- 4.Since it is forbidden to separate challah on Shabbat…
- 5.It is a proper custom to announce the entry…
261Laws of Doubtful Nightfall (Bein HaShemashot)Siman 261 · 6 seifim
- 1.During doubtful nightfall — bein hashemashot, the period from…
- 2.A woman who forgot to separate challah on Friday,…
- 3.One who accepted Shabbat upon himself while it was…
- 4.One who heard the congregation recite "Barechu" while it…
- 5.One who did not put on tefillin on Friday,…
- 6.It is clear that one should not, God forbid,…
262Sanctifying Shabbat With a Set Table — "The Honor of Shabbat"Siman 262 · 9 seifim
- 1.One should set his table and make up all…
- 2.Even though the kabbalists hold that one should wear…
- 3.It is fitting to set aside good, clean clothing…
- 4.One should already change clothes on Friday, so as…
- 5.Even a mourner must change his clothes on Shabbat…
- 6.One need not set aside special shoes for Shabbat,…
- 7.One should rejoice at the arrival of Shabbat, like…
- 8.It is proper to remain in one's Shabbat clothes…
- 9.It is a Jewish custom for both fathers and…
263Laws of Lighting Shabbat CandlesSiman 263 · 9 seifim
- 1.It is a mitzvah instituted by the Sages (mid'divrei…
- 2.Strictly speaking, one candle suffices for the honor of…
- 3.A woman who has had the custom of lighting…
- 4.Even a poor person who has nothing to eat…
- 5.One who has only a single candle — such…
- 6.The one lighting must ignite most of what protrudes…
- 7.A woman who lit Shabbat candles, and a few…
- 8.Our plain custom is not to be particular about…
- 9.Ideally, it is proper to put on Shabbat clothing…
+Who Is Obligated in Candle-LightingSiman 263 (continued) · 22 seifim
- 10.Lighting a candle on Shabbat is a mitzvah instituted…
- 11.It is good that the man occupy himself with…
- 12.Even an unmarried woman living alone, or a widowed…
- 13.Even one who is married but rests alone in…
- 14.Strictly as a matter of halachah, there is no…
- 15.A young man studying at a yeshiva with a…
- 16.The same law applies to an educational institution for…
- 17.An unmarried young man studying at a dormitory, or…
- 18.A bride resting at her mother-in-law's home must light…
- 19.A guest staying with relatives or friends, for whom…
- 20.Those staying with relatives for the Friday night meal,…
- 21.Soldiers going out on guard duty on Friday night,…
- 22.Soldiers in a field tent, where there is great…
- 23.A woman who has given birth and is in…
- 24.A woman who has given birth may light Shabbat…
- 25.A blind woman lights the candles and recites the…
- 26.A woman who forgot to light Shabbat candles, and…
- 27.A woman who was negligent and did not light…
- 28.A woman who forgot to light a candle on…
- 29.There is no need to light Shabbat candles in…
- 30.Communities that have the custom of the synagogue caretaker…
- 31.Some have the custom of putting enough oil in…
+The Blessing on the LightingSiman 263 (continued) · 13 seifim
- 32.One must recite a blessing over lighting the candles…
- 33.The blessing must be recited before the lighting —…
- 34.Even a woman who has been accustomed to recite…
- 35.A Sephardic woman who lit candles in honor of…
- 36.In any case, if she remembers that she has…
- 37.Ideally, one should not add to the text of…
- 38.A woman who recited the blessing on the lighting,…
- 39.A woman who, at candle-lighting time on Friday, lit…
- 40.It is clear that if the maid lit the…
- 41.A bride lighting candles in her home for the…
- 42.If a festival falls on Shabbat, one should recite…
- 43.It is obvious that a resident of outside the…
- 44.One who is in a filthy place with a…
+The Time of LightingSiman 263 (continued) · 7 seifim
- 45.One should not light Shabbat candles while it is…
- 46.Therefore, women who light Shabbat candles and wish to…
- 47.The time for lighting Shabbat candles on Friday is,…
- 48.Women too are obligated in the mitzvah of extending…
- 49.One who had a candle lit in his home…
- 50.One should not delay lighting until close to sunset,…
- 51.A woman who forgot to light Shabbat candles, and…
+Accepting Shabbat Through Candle-LightingSiman 263 (continued) · 6 seifim
- 52.Some say that once a woman has lit Shabbat…
- 53.A woman who lit candles and accepted Shabbat upon…
- 54.A man who lit Shabbat candles is permitted to…
- 55.One who lit candles on Friday, and after lighting…
- 56.A woman who lit Shabbat candles, and after the…
- 57.If Rosh Chodesh falls on Friday, and one forgot…
+The Place of LightingSiman 263 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 58.It is a mitzvah to light the candles close…
- 59.Strictly speaking there is no need to light in…
- 60.One must light the candles in the place where…
- 61.One who forgot to light candles on Friday in…
+What May Be Used for the LightingSiman 263 (continued) · 12 seifim
- 62.It is the finest fulfillment of the mitzvah to…
- 63.One does not light with animal fat (chelev) or…
- 64.Regarding the custom here in the holy city of…
- 65.Regarding the custom of lighting Shabbat candles with kerosene,…
- 66.Some say one fulfills the obligation of lighting with…
- 67.If one forgot to light the Shabbat candle, and…
- 68.A wax candle lit in honor of Shabbat that…
- 69.If one has no oil or wax candles, and…
- 70.One must also be careful, with Shabbat and Yom…
- 71.Some have the custom of lighting Shabbat candles arranged…
- 72.Oil that was placed under a bed and one…
- 73.One should not make a wick for a Shabbat…
265Placing Vessels Under the CandleSiman 265 · 3 seifim
- 1.One should not place a vessel under the candle…
- 2.A candle over which a blessing was recited and…
- 3.It is permitted to place water into an oil…
266A Found Object on ShabbatSiman 266 · 2 seifim
Read this siman →267The Prayer Service on FridaySiman 267 · 35 seifim
- 1.In the Minchah prayer on Friday, one does not…
- 2.Ideally, it is proper to set the time for…
- 3.Those accustomed to pray Minchah wearing tefillin according to…
- 4.We have already explained that one who did not…
- 5.One who did not pray Minchah on Friday, and…
- 6.Our custom is that during the recitation of "Mizmor…
- 7.The order of Kabbalat Shabbat: the custom of the…
- 8.According to Maran the Shulchan Aruch, reciting "Mizmor Shir…
- 9.The mitzvah of extending from the weekday into the…
- 10.One who accepted tosefet Shabbat together with the congregation…
- 11.A mohel who accepted Shabbat upon himself while it…
- 12.One prays the evening service earlier than on weekdays;…
- 13.When the evening service is prayed before the stars…
- 14.The plain custom is not to say "VeHu Rachum…
- 15.Our custom is to say Kaddish al Yisrael after…
- 16.In the blessing "HaShkiveinu" in the Friday night evening…
- 17.If one mistakenly concluded, on Friday night, the blessing…
- 18.After concluding the blessing "HaPores sukkat shalom," etc., one…
- 19.The custom is to say Chatzi Kaddish between Ge'ulah…
- 20.One says "Vayechulu" in the silent evening Amidah, for…
- 21.A boy who will turn thirteen on Shabbat is…
- 22.In all the Shabbat prayers, one should say "Shabbat…
- 23.After the Shabbat evening Amidah, one goes back and…
- 24.One who did not say "Vayechulu" with the congregation,…
- 25.The prayer leader recites the blessing "Me'ein Sheva" ("an…
- 26.Some cantors and prayer leaders have the custom of…
- 27."Me'ein Sheva" is recited on Shabbat and Yom Tov,…
- 28.The prayer leader should recite "Me'ein Sheva" only in…
- 29.When the congregation prays on Friday night in a…
- 30.A prayer leader who heard Kaddish in the middle…
- 31.One should not speak while "Vayechulu" is being said,…
- 32.If one mistakenly prayed a weekday prayer on Friday…
- 33.Likewise, one who was prevented by circumstances beyond his…
- 34.If a festival falls on Shabbat, and one forgot…
- 35.Likewise, one who mistakenly, in the Rosh Chodesh prayer…
268One Who Errs in the Shabbat PrayerSiman 268 · 11 seifim
- 1.A person should be careful in his Shabbat prayers…
- 2.If one thought it was a weekday, and began…
- 3.One who erred in the Shabbat prayer, and after…
- 4.One who prayed the weekday prayer on Shabbat and…
- 5.One who erred in the Shabbat Minchah prayer, praying…
- 6.A prayer leader who erred in the repetition of…
- 7.A prayer leader who erred on Shabbat, and after…
- 8.One who errs among the Shabbat prayers and confuses…
- 9.One who mistakenly said "Tikanta Shabbat" [the Musaf text]…
- 10.If one forgot to request "Tal Umatar" in the…
- 11.One who erred or was prevented by circumstances beyond…
269Kiddush in the SynagogueSiman 269 · 2 seifim
- 1.Nowadays one should not recite Kiddush in the synagogue,…
- 2.In any case, the custom that some synagogues have…
270Reciting "Bameh Madlikin"Siman 270 · 4 seifim
- 1.The custom is to recite the chapter "Bameh Madlikin."…
- 2.One does not say "Bameh Madlikin" on Yom Tov,…
- 3.When praying the Friday night service in a house…
- 4.Some have the custom of reading "Shir HaShirim" (Song…
271Laws of Kiddush Over WineSiman 271 · 45 seifim
- 1.After the evening prayer, one should hurry home to…
- 2.The mitzvah of Kiddush on Friday night must be…
- 3.It is a Torah-level positive commandment to sanctify the…
- 4.Even regarding Kiddush on Yom Tov, many of the…
- 5.When he comes home, he should hurry to recite…
- 6.One who is a guest for Shabbat at the…
- 7.If there is no wine in the city, or…
- 8.One who is outside the Land, in a place…
- 9.Women are obligated in Kiddush by Torah law —…
- 10.When the head of the household is absent from…
- 11.A boy of thirteen years and one day, about…
- 12.A minor who comes of age and becomes a…
- 13.When reciting Kiddush and Havdalah for others, there is…
- 14.Our plain custom is to recite the blessing "borei…
- 15.A blind person is obligated in all mitzvot by…
- 16.If one cannot afford both to buy wine for…
- 17.Once the sun has set on Friday, it is…
- 18.One should train a minor who has reached the…
- 19.One who mistakenly tasted food before Kiddush, even eating…
- 20.One who forgot to recite Kiddush on Friday night…
- 21.One who forgot, or willfully failed, to recite Kiddush…
- 22.If one recited Kiddush neither on Friday night nor…
- 23.Before Kiddush, a cloth must be spread on the…
- 24.The procedure for reciting Kiddush over wine: one takes…
- 25.The custom is to say the hymn "Shalom Aleichem"…
- 26.After "Shalom Aleichem," one recites the chapter "Eshet Chayil…
- 27.Some have the custom of saying, before Kiddush, "Azamer…
- 28.Our custom, following the Kabbalah, is to say the…
- 29.Ideally, it is a mitzvah to make the Kiddush…
- 30.All members of the household must pay close attention…
- 31.When the head of the household recites Kiddush to…
- 32.When there are many members of the household, and…
- 33.Some have the custom that if the household head…
- 34.One who hears Kiddush from a companion, and does…
- 35.Even one who is not reciting Kiddush for himself…
- 36.After reciting Kiddush over the cup, one washes his…
- 37.One must drink from the Kiddush cup a mouthful's…
- 38.Ideally, it is fitting and proper that the one…
- 39.It is the finest fulfillment of the mitzvah for…
- 40.Even one who did not taste the wine has…
- 41.One who recited Kiddush and, before tasting, interrupted with…
- 42.It is permitted to recite Kiddush using a disposable…
- 43.One who has no cup other than one with…
- 44.One who has gloves on his hands should ideally…
- 45.One who wishes to fulfill the obligation of Kiddush…
272Which Wine to Recite Kiddush OverSiman 272 · 23 seifim
- 1.One does not recite Kiddush over wine that has…
- 2.If one went ahead and recited Kiddush over uncovered…
- 3.Wine that turned to vinegar and became disqualified for…
- 4.It is permitted to recite Kiddush over new wine,…
- 5.Ideally, it is a mitzvah to recite Kiddush over…
- 6.If one cannot find red wine fit for the…
- 7.One should not recite Kiddush over wine mostly diluted…
- 8.A Sephardi who hears Kiddush or Havdalah from an…
- 9.One may recite Kiddush over raisin wine, provided the…
- 10.In all this, the raisins must contain moisture, such…
- 11.If one has only seedless raisins, it is possible…
- 12.It is permitted to recite Kiddush over grape juice,…
- 13.One who hosts, on Friday night, a secular Jew…
- 14.It is forbidden to recite Kiddush over ordinary [non-Jewish]…
- 15.If one went ahead and recited Kiddush over ordinary…
- 16.Even in a place where wine is unavailable, one…
- 17.The primary halachah follows Maran's view that one should…
- 18.Even when reciting Kiddush over hard liquor, one must…
- 19.One should not perform Kiddush on Friday night, or…
- 20.One who has no wine or bread on Friday…
- 21.One should not recite Kiddush over any other kind…
- 22.The blessing "hagefen" recited over the Kiddush wine discharges…
- 23.Those who hear Kiddush recited in the synagogue after…
273The Law of Kiddush in the Place of the MealSiman 273 · 18 seifim
- 1.There is no valid Kiddush except in the place…
- 2.One who hears the Kiddush blessing over wine from…
- 3.Therefore, one who hears Kiddush from a companion or…
- 4.If one recited Kiddush intending to eat in this…
- 5.Ideally, one should not change his place from room…
- 6.The same applies if he can see his original…
- 7.If he stipulated in his mind at the outset…
- 8.If one ate a kezayit of bread after the…
- 9.The "meal" referred to [for this purpose] means a…
- 10.Eating fruit is not considered a "meal" — even…
- 11.If one drank a revi'it of chamar medinah, such…
- 12.Those who have the custom of visiting, after the…
- 13.A person can recite Kiddush for others who do…
- 14.Even for the daytime Kiddush, which is not a…
- 15.One must eat in the place of the Kiddush…
- 16.Some say that if, after the Kiddush, one went…
- 17.A kitchen located in the courtyard of the house…
- 18.One who recited Kiddush and ate, and after eating…
274Laws of Cutting the Bread on ShabbatSiman 274 · 27 seifim
- 1.It is a fine custom to decorate the Shabbat…
- 2.If one recited the blessing over fragrant spices before…
- 3.Some have the custom of taking two bundles of…
- 4.On Shabbat, one must cut the bread over two…
- 5.Some have the custom, following the Arizal, of placing…
- 6.Ideally, one should be particular that the loaves be…
- 7.If one has two half-loaves of bread, he should…
- 8.If one has no two loaves for lechem mishneh,…
- 9.A frozen loaf of bread taken from the freezer…
- 10.Cut bread — if, when one holds the slice,…
- 11.Women too are obligated in the three Shabbat meals…
- 12.On Yom Tov as well, one must cut the…
- 13.Before reciting "HaMotzi," one should hold the bread in…
- 14.If he is wearing gloves during cold weather, he…
- 15.One should not begin cutting the bread until finishing…
- 16.It is a mitzvah to cut a large slice,…
- 17.The one cutting the bread must have intent to…
- 18.Before tasting the bread, one should dip it in…
- 19.It is more proper that after cutting for himself,…
- 20.One should not hand the bread to those at…
- 21.On Shabbat and Yom Tov, the head of the…
- 22.According to all opinions, the first and second Shabbat…
- 23.One should eat, at each Shabbat meal, an amount…
- 24.One who is not eating is not permitted to…
- 25.It is a fine custom to sing songs and…
- 26.It is good to say words of Torah to…
- 27.On Shabbat and Yom Tov, the custom is not…
275Things Forbidden to Do by CandlelightSiman 275 · 20 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to read on Friday night by…
- 2.Some say it is forbidden to study on Friday…
- 3.The poskim disagree whether it is permitted to read…
- 4.It is permitted to study on Friday night by…
- 5.Even with electric lamps where it is possible to…
- 6.Even with electric lamps whose own light intensity can…
- 7.If a power outage occurs on Friday night, and…
- 8.The same applies regarding reading the Torah portion twice…
- 9.If a power outage occurs on Friday night in…
- 10.If the electricity goes out in the synagogue on…
- 11.On Yom Kippur, even though one is not fluent…
- 12.On the first night of Pesach that falls on…
- 13.A couple staying with relatives, who have been given…
- 14.When bakashot are conducted in the synagogue during the…
- 15.It is forbidden to read the bakashot by candlelight,…
- 16.If the electric light in the house goes out,…
- 17.It is permitted to check by candlelight what is…
- 18.One who wakes in the middle of the night…
- 19.Opening a door facing a bonfire on Shabbat, when…
- 20.One who finds himself on Shabbat at a table…
276Laws of a Candle Lit by a Non-JewSiman 276 · 9 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to tell a non-Jew, even by…
- 2.If a candle was already lit in a Jew's…
- 3.If the original candle went out, and only the…
- 4.If an electrical short circuit occurs in one's home,…
- 5.One who has difficulty falling asleep when the electric…
- 6.An electric door that opens automatically via an electronic…
- 7.One who finds himself at a hotel whose rooms…
- 8.A door opened by an electric button operated by…
- 9.A non-Jew who turned on a light for several…
277Not Causing a Candle to Be ExtinguishedSiman 277 · 5 seifim
- 1.One should not light a candle before Shabbat and…
- 2.If the candle is fixed to the wall behind…
- 3.It is permitted to touch an electric lamp standing…
- 4.A lit wax candle that fell onto a tablecloth…
- 5.When there is a family celebration, and people dine…
278Extinguishing a Candle for the Sake of a PatientSiman 278 · 2 seifim
- 1.A dangerously ill patient bothered by light and unable…
- 2.For a dangerously ill patient for whom it is…
279Moving a Candle on ShabbatSiman 279 · 5 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to move a lit candle on…
- 2.A dish into which oil and a wick are…
- 3.If one stipulated before Shabbat regarding this candle that…
- 4.The same law applies to candlesticks in which wax…
- 5.If one placed the candlesticks, from before Shabbat, on…
+Keriat Shema Recited at Bedtime on Friday NightKeriat Shema Recited at Bedtime on Friday Night · 2 seifim
- 1.On Friday night as well, one must recite Keriat…
- 2.It is permitted to say the text "Hareini mochel…
281Laws of the Shabbat Shacharit PrayerSiman 281 · 12 seifim
- 1.Some have the custom of delaying the time of…
- 2.It is a mitzvah to run when going to…
- 3.It is fitting and proper, where possible, for a…
- 4.The custom has already spread to pray on Shabbat…
- 5.The custom is to add, on Shabbat and Yom…
- 6.One does not say "Mizmor LeTodah" on Shabbat and…
- 7.One should not skip the verse "VeHu Rachum" within…
- 8.After Shirat HaYam (the Song of the Sea), the…
- 9.If one forgot to say "Nishmat Kol Chai," and…
- 10.One who forgot to say, in the blessing "Yotzer,"…
- 11.On Shabbat and Yom Tov as well, one must…
- 12.One who arrives late to the synagogue on Shabbat…
282Laws of the Torah Reading on ShabbatSiman 282 · 19 seifim
- 1.When taking out the Torah scroll, at the time…
- 2.When saying "Ana avda deKudsha Berich Hu, deSagidna kamei…
- 3.One who is in the middle of Pesukei D'Zimrah,…
- 4.The plain custom in Eretz Yisrael is to say…
- 5.Every Shabbat, seven people are called up to the…
- 6.If the prayer leader mistakenly finished the Torah portion…
- 7.It is permitted to sell Torah aliyot and the…
- 8.A minor of six years of age or older,…
- 9.One who is disqualified from testifying due to a…
- 10.If ten people began reading the Torah at Shabbat…
- 11.When Rosh Chodesh Nisan falls on Shabbat, three Torah…
- 12.It is forbidden to hold the Torah scroll directly…
- 13.If, during the Torah reading, it is discovered that…
- 14.One called up to the Torah must read quietly…
- 15.One should not be particular about different pronunciations in…
- 16.It is forbidden for a person to leave the…
- 17.One who travels abroad during the days of Pesach,…
- 18.If the synagogue had only a Torah scroll unfit…
- 19.One does not take out two Torah scrolls in…
284Some Laws of the HaftarahSiman 284 · 9 seifim
- 1.One who has already gone up for a regular…
- 2.The haftarah is read from the Prophets on a…
- 3.The entire congregation must say the haftarah quietly along…
- 4.It is a mitzvah to go beyond the letter…
- 5.A minor may be called up for the maftir…
- 6.On a Shabbat when two Torah portions are combined,…
- 7.Those who have the custom of saying, after finishing…
- 8.One should not answer "amen" after "emet vatzedek," said…
- 9.The custom of placing the book of haftarot inside…
285Reading the Torah Portion Twice in Hebrew and Once in Aramaic TranslationSiman 285 · 19 seifim
- 1.Even though a person hears the entire Torah portion…
- 2.One who reads the portion Shnayim Mikra Ve'Echad Targum…
- 3.Even one who does not understand the language of…
- 4.According to the kabbalists, one must read the portion…
- 5.It is the finest fulfillment of the mitzvah to…
- 6.Even though, according to the letter of Talmudic law,…
- 7.A Torah scholar reading Shnayim Mikra Ve'Echad Targum, who…
- 8.Some have the custom of reading a portion of…
- 9.One whose time is limited is permitted to read…
- 10.One who is extremely pressed for time, with no…
- 11.If the prayer leader extends the cantillation in his…
- 12.A woman is exempt from reading Shnayim Mikra Ve'Echad…
- 13.One need not read the portion Shnayim Mikra Ve'Echad…
- 14.The verses of the Hebrew text must be read…
- 15.Even one who has an eye ailment and suffers…
- 16.Some say that a blind person is also obligated…
- 17.One who is proficient in reading the portion with…
- 18.A mourner, during the seven days of mourning, is…
- 19.The portion "VeZot HaBerachah" should be read twice in…
286Laws of the Musaf Prayer on ShabbatSiman 286 · 20 seifim
- 1.The custom has spread that on the Shabbat before…
- 2.The time for the Musaf prayer is immediately after…
- 3.Every individual is obligated to pray Musaf, whether or…
- 4.Minors who have reached the age of chinuch are…
- 5.Before the Musaf prayer, the custom is to say…
- 6.Women are exempt from the Musaf prayer of Shabbat,…
- 7.In the Musaf of Shabbat, it is more proper…
- 8.Some say that one should say "Tikanta Shabbat" spelled…
- 9.All Jewish communities should have the practice of conducting…
- 10.A congregation that wants to pray Shacharit and immediately…
- 11.The kohanim recite the priestly blessing during the Musaf…
- 12.We have already explained that if one mistakenly prayed…
- 13.A prayer leader who mistakenly began "Tikanta Shabbat" after…
- 14.An individual who was delayed in praying Musaf until…
- 15.One who is uncertain whether he prayed Musaf on…
- 16.On Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh, one says in Musaf…
- 17.If one erred on Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh and…
- 18.Some say that in the Musaf of Shabbat and…
- 19.Sephardim do not have the custom of saying "Shir…
- 20.The plain custom is to say "Barechu et Hashem…
287Comforting Mourners and Visiting the Sick on ShabbatSiman 287 · 3 seifim
- 1.It is permitted to comfort mourners on Shabbat, but…
- 2.Shabbat does not interrupt the period of mourning; it…
- 3.It is permitted to visit the sick on Shabbat,…
288The Law of Fasting on ShabbatSiman 288 · 6 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to fast on Shabbat, even for…
- 2.One should hurry to eat after the prayer, before…
- 3.One who knows that the prayer will be extended…
- 4.One who has a bad dream on Friday night…
- 5.If one dreamed that he was commanded from Heaven…
- 6.It is forbidden to cry on Shabbat, and one…
289The Order of the Shabbat Morning MealSiman 289 · 10 seifim
- 1.One's table should be set, the bed made nicely,…
- 2.For the morning Kiddush as well, it must be…
- 3.For men, the obligation of "Kiddusha Rabba" — the…
- 4.Women too are forbidden to eat or drink before…
- 5.It is permitted to give cake or fruit to…
- 6.A patient who, on doctor's orders, must eat in…
- 7.Strictly as a matter of halachah, it is permitted…
- 8.A prayer leader who reads the Torah at several…
- 9.One who recites Kiddush over wine on Shabbat, and…
- 10.In a place where kosher wine is not available…
290Completing One Hundred Blessings on ShabbatSiman 290 · 19 seifim
- 1.One should have plenty of fruits, delicacies, and fragrant…
- 2.After Birkat Hamazon, some have the custom of reciting…
- 3.Those who have the custom of reciting a blessing…
- 4.Even though one must complete one hundred blessings on…
- 5.On Shabbat, it is permitted to leave the fruits…
- 6.One who extends the third Shabbat meal even past…
- 7.After the morning meal, the practice is to set…
- 8.Some have the custom of visiting parents on Shabbat,…
- 9.Laborers and working people who do not have much…
- 10.It is a mitzvah to develop original Torah insights…
- 11.Strictly speaking, there is no prohibition for a Torah…
- 12.One accustomed to an afternoon nap should not forgo…
- 13.A person should not say, "I will go to…
- 14.One who recites the "me'ein shalosh" blessing on Shabbat…
- 15.One who forgot to mention "Retzeh vehachalitzeinu" in Birkat…
- 16.One who is uncertain whether he said "Retzeh vehachalitzeinu"…
- 17.If a festival or Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbat,…
- 18.One who wants to stay awake all Friday night…
- 19.It is permitted to sit in the sun on…
291The Law of the Third Shabbat MealSiman 291 · 26 seifim
- 1.One should be very careful to fulfill the third…
- 2.Even those who have the custom of circling the…
- 3.One who lacks the money to buy the needs…
- 4.The time for the third meal begins when the…
- 5.It is more proper to eat the third meal…
- 6.If the morning meal extends until the time of…
- 7.The custom has already spread not to recite Kiddush…
- 8.Even though there is no need for Kiddush over…
- 9.At the third meal as well, one must cut…
- 10.If the head of the household recites the blessing…
- 11.It is proper to have an abundance of delicacies,…
- 12.It is proper to eat fish at the third…
- 13.Some have the custom of eating boiled eggs at…
- 14.The third meal must be made with bread. If…
- 15.Women are obligated in the third meal, since women…
- 16.One must mention the special occasion in the third…
- 17.If one's meal extends and it grows dark, he…
- 18.One who forgot to say "Retzeh vehachalitzeinu" in Birkat…
- 19.A woman who forgot to say "Retzeh vehachalitzeinu" at…
- 20.When Rosh Chodesh falls on Motza'ei Shabbat, and one…
- 21.When reciting the blessing over the cup for Birkat…
- 22.When there is a groom at the third meal,…
- 23.If one prayed the evening service in the middle…
- 24.Ideally, one should eat the third meal before sunset.…
- 25.If two people were sitting and eating the third…
- 26.On the eve of a festival that falls on…
292The Law of the Minchah Prayer on ShabbatSiman 292 · 14 seifim
- 1.It is fitting and proper to pray Minchah on…
- 2.Before the ark is opened, one says the verse…
- 3.One who is prevented by circumstances beyond his control…
- 4.Even in a house of mourning, one should not…
- 5.A Torah scroll is taken out and "Berich Shemei"…
- 6.Kaddish is not said after the Torah reading; the…
- 7.In the Minchah prayer, one says "Atah Echad," which…
- 8.We have already explained that it is more proper…
- 9.In the Shabbat Minchah prayer, one says three verses…
- 10.The Ashkenazi custom is to say first "Tzidkatcha tzedek…
- 11.If Shabbat falls on a day when, were it…
- 12.After the Kaddish "Titkabel," the psalm "Halleluyah, odeh et…
- 13.One who did not pray Minchah on Shabbat, and…
- 14.It is forbidden to drink water between Minchah and…
293Laws of the Evening Service on Motza'ei ShabbatSiman 293 · 3 seifim
- 1.It is fitting and proper to delay the evening…
- 2.The custom is to say psalms before the evening…
- 3.One who is prevented by circumstances beyond his control…
+The Time Shabbat DepartsSiman 293 (continued) · 11 seifim
- 1.One must be very careful not to perform work…
- 2.The time Shabbat departs, in all cities of the…
- 3.In any case, it is fitting and proper for…
- 4.However, all this applies specifically to the departure of…
- 5.For rabbinic shevut prohibitions, there is no need to…
- 6.One who observed Motza'ei Shabbat according to Rabbeinu Tam's…
- 7.Some say that the time of Rabbeinu Tam should…
- 8.One should not rely on seeing three stars before…
- 9.The leniency permitted for the sake of a mitzvah…
- 10.One who is delayed in praying the evening service…
- 11.One who observes the time of Rabbeinu Tam is…
294Laws of Havdalah Within the PrayerSiman 294 · 9 seifim
- 1.In the evening service on Motza'ei Shabbat, one says…
- 2.In some places the custom is to say the…
- 3.If one mistakenly did not recite Havdalah within the…
- 4.One who knows he has no wine or chamar…
- 5.One who forgot to say "Atah chonantanu" in the…
- 6.If one was prevented by circumstances beyond his control…
- 7.After the Amidah, one says, standing, "Vayehi no'am," etc.,…
- 8.One who erred or was prevented by circumstances beyond…
- 9.One who erred or was prevented by circumstances beyond…
295Havdalah Performed by the Prayer LeaderSiman 295 · 4 seifim
- 1.The prayer leader performs Havdalah over the cup in…
- 2.The prayer leader must sit while performing Havdalah in…
- 3.The view of the Geonim is that the one…
- 4.One who hears Havdalah from the prayer leader in…
296Laws of Havdalah Over WineSiman 296 · 23 seifim
- 1.The order of Havdalah is: the blessing "borei pri…
- 2.The custom is to say, before Havdalah, "Kos yeshuot…
- 3.Our custom is to say, before the "hagefen" blessing,…
- 4.One must be careful that the cup not be…
- 5.The cup must not be broken or cracked. But…
- 6.One who has no wine for Havdalah cannot perform…
- 7.One who finds himself outside the Land, or in…
- 8.One should not perform Havdalah over coffee or tea,…
- 9.One does not perform Havdalah over wine with a…
- 10.Even one performing Havdalah at home must say the…
- 11.While performing Havdalah, one must hold the cup in…
- 12.Even if all the members of the household heard…
- 13.Just as women are obligated in Kiddush, they are…
- 14.One who intends to perform Havdalah at home should…
- 15.The custom has already spread that women do not…
- 16.A prayer leader who is required to perform Havdalah…
- 17.It is a mitzvah upon the parents of a…
- 18.Ideally, it is good to drink a revi'it of…
- 19.One who cannot afford wine for both Kiddush and…
- 20.Some have the custom of pouring a little of…
- 21.Some have the custom that after drinking from the…
- 22.One does not fulfill the obligation of Havdalah by…
- 23.Hospitals that perform Havdalah over a loudspeaker — for…
298Laws of the Candle for HavdalahSiman 298 · 22 seifim
- 1.One recites the blessing "borei me'orei ha'esh" over a…
- 2.If one had no candle at the time he…
- 3.One who has no wine or chamar medinah for…
- 4.It is the finest fulfillment of the mitzvah to…
- 5.One should not recite "borei me'orei ha'esh" over a…
- 6.One should not recite "borei me'orei ha'esh" over an…
- 7.When reciting the blessing, it is proper to curl…
- 8.One need not remove his glasses when reciting "borei…
- 9.It is proper to extinguish the candle after Havdalah,…
- 10.One does not recite the blessing over the candle…
- 11.If one went ahead and recited the blessing over…
- 12.The custom has already spread not to turn off…
- 13.It is a mitzvah for everyone to be close…
- 14.The blessing "me'orei ha'esh" may be recited with God's…
- 15.The congregation listening to the Havdalah and intending to…
- 16.One who said "Shavua tov" before tasting from the…
- 17.One who is traveling and has no wine or…
- 18.A candle that did not rest from a forbidden…
- 19.Even though in Kaf HaChaim the author leans toward…
- 20.One should not recite the blessing over a candle…
- 21.A blind person does not recite "borei me'orei ha'esh."…
- 22.It is permitted for a niddah woman to hold…
299Performing Work Before HavdalahSiman 299 · 11 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to eat anything, or even to…
- 2.One who mistakenly recited the blessing of enjoyment over…
- 3.It is forbidden to perform work before performing Havdalah.…
- 4.If the third meal extended past the time the…
- 5.One who has not yet performed Havdalah is permitted…
- 6.Just as it is forbidden to perform work before…
- 7.One who forgot or was prevented by circumstances beyond…
- 8.What we said above — that one who was…
- 9.If one did not perform Havdalah on Motza'ei Yom…
- 10.A resident of Eretz Yisrael who is outside the…
- 11.If one wants to dine immediately, close to the…
300The Law of the Fourth MealSiman 300 · 6 seifim
- 1.A person should always set his table on Motza'ei…
- 2.Ideally, one should fulfill the mitzvah of the fourth…
- 3.Women too are obligated in the fourth meal on…
- 4.At the fourth meal on Motza'ei Shabbat, one says…
- 5.It is proper not to remove one's Shabbat clothing…
- 6.Even though it is permitted to perform work before…
301The Law of Running and Exercising on ShabbatSiman 301 · 11 seifim
- 1.It is said in Isaiah: "If you turn away…
- 2.It is permitted to run to the synagogue on…
- 3.One walking on the road who is concerned that…
- 4.One walking on a road where women dressed immodestly…
- 5.It is permitted to stroll on Shabbat even if…
- 6.Young men who take pleasure in jumping and running…
- 7.Children are permitted to play running games, hide-and-seek and…
- 8.It is forbidden to do calisthenic exercises on Shabbat,…
- 9.One should not swim on the surface of water…
- 10.Swimming in the sea, a lake, or a river…
- 11.One who is walking and comes to a puddle…
+Laws of Carrying on ShabbatSiman 301 (continued) · 83 seifim
- 1.Whoever carries an object from a private domain into…
- 2.One who goes out into the public domain on…
- 3.One who forgot and went out into the public…
- 4.Those who have the custom of having a minor…
- 5.Any carrying that is in the manner of wearing…
- 6.Some say it is permitted to go out into…
- 7.One wearing two hats, one over the other —…
- 8.One whose hat is larger and wider than the…
- 9.It is permitted to go out into the public…
- 10.Anything that serves the garment — such as buttons…
- 11.A spare button sewn and attached to the garment,…
- 12.One whose garment tore and who joined the torn…
- 13.A woman who closed the opening of her robe…
- 14.One whose shirt-sleeve button fell off is permitted to…
- 15.One whose shirt-sleeve button fell off is permitted to…
- 16.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 17.A coat that has a zipper sewn into its…
- 18.A coat that has a small fabric loop on…
- 19.Belt loops on pants — even if one of…
- 20.A garment whose pocket has torn may be worn…
- 21.It is permitted to go out with a label…
- 22.A mark that the launderer places on a garment,…
- 23.Ideally, one should not go out into the public…
- 24.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat with…
- 25.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 26.It is permitted for a woman to place a…
- 27.It is proper to be stringent not to go…
- 28.It is permitted to go out on winter Shabbatot…
- 29.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 30.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 31.One who has dirt inside his shoes is permitted…
- 32.One who has some food in his mouth, or…
- 33.Some say it is proper to clean the meat…
- 34.A man accustomed to wearing some piece of jewelry,…
- 35.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat with…
- 36.One who does not normally wear glasses, but has…
- 37.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 38.Optical sunglasses, whose lenses are tinted and which also…
- 39.Some say it is forbidden to go out on…
- 40.Clip-on sunglasses attached by a hinge to prescription glasses,…
- 41.One blind in one eye who has a glass…
- 42.One who is hard of hearing is permitted to…
- 43.One who was injured in his hand or leg,…
- 44.It is permitted to go out with a health…
- 45.One whose arm is broken, and who has placed…
- 46.One whose ears hurt, or who is sensitive to…
- 47.It is forbidden to go out on Shabbat into…
- 48.However, a wristwatch made of silver or gold, attached…
- 49.Soldiers called up during wartime on Shabbat itself —…
- 50.A soldier called up for reserve duty on Shabbat…
- 51.A military commander who gave soldiers an order to…
- 52.It is permitted for soldiers to go out on…
- 53.It is permitted for soldiers to go out on…
- 54.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 55.A rubber band or ribbon that girls use to…
- 56.It is forbidden for a married woman to go…
- 57.In places without an eruv, it is fitting and…
- 58.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 59.One should not carry the house key on Shabbat…
- 60.An amputee fitted with a prosthetic leg is permitted…
- 61.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat with…
- 62.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 63.A disabled person confined to a wheelchair, who can…
- 64.An elderly or sick person who cannot walk without…
- 65.A disabled person who walks with crutches is permitted…
- 66.In places where there is snow on the ground,…
- 67.A blind person accustomed to walking with a guide…
- 68.It is forbidden to go out on Shabbat into…
- 69.In a place without an eruv, it is forbidden…
- 70.A sick child who needs to be brought to…
- 71.A healthy child in a stroller, even though he…
- 72.It is permitted to wrap oneself in a tallit…
- 73.It is permitted to go out even on Friday…
- 74.It is permitted to go out into the public…
- 75.One who goes out on Shabbat with a tallit…
- 76.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 77.It is forbidden to go out on Shabbat with…
- 78.One who sees a friend on Shabbat wearing invalid…
- 79.It is forbidden to go out into the public…
- 80.A hat that has a strap or elastic band,…
- 81.A hat whose brim is a handbreadth wide, if…
- 82.One carrying an object into the public domain is…
- 83.An amulet written by an expert, or an amulet…
+Hanging a Wet Garment on ShabbatHanging a Wet Garment on Shabbat · 19 seifim
- 84.A garment that became wet or was soaked in…
- 85.A garment that fell into water, and the like,…
- 86.One who is wearing a garment that became wet…
- 87.One who fell into a puddle of water on…
- 88.It is forbidden to hang wet laundry on a…
- 89.It is forbidden to place wet laundry near an…
- 90.One should not hang laundry on Shabbat even privately,…
- 91.It is permitted to hang dry garments, not wet…
- 92.Even baby diapers/cloths laundered before Shabbat should not, nowadays,…
- 93.Even if water was spilled on only part of…
- 94.A garment on which water or a beverage was…
- 95.A winter coat that, in that locale, is normally…
- 96.Even during the rainy season, one should not hang…
- 97.Garments laundered before Shabbat and hung on the line…
- 98.Laundry on the line, where one is concerned it…
- 99.All the more so, if diapers and other children's…
- 100.Towels that became quite damp from being used to…
- 101.One who improperly hung wet laundry on a clothesline…
- 102.It is permitted to wash one's hands on Shabbat…
302Cleaning and Folding Clothes on ShabbatSiman 302 · 38 seifim
- 1.One who launders clothes on Shabbat performs a derivative…
- 2.We have already explained that it is forbidden to…
- 3.It is forbidden for a single person to move…
- 4.A garment wet with other beverages, even very wet,…
- 5.Sometimes shaking dew off a garment on Shabbat is…
- 6.It is permitted to gently shake off snow that…
- 7.A garment made of nylon or synthetic material, containing…
- 8.Snow that fell on a nylon cover on a…
- 9.It is permitted to walk in the public domain…
- 10.A new garment on which rain fell, whether black…
- 11.A garment or hat soiled with dirt or dust…
- 12.It is permitted to clean dust off a garment…
- 13.However, all this applies to shaking off dust; but…
- 14.If there is concern that the dirt or dust…
- 15.It is permitted to clean the accumulated dust off…
- 16.Some say it is permitted to clean carpets on…
- 17.It is permitted to fold the tallit on Shabbat…
- 18.It is permitted to fold paper on Shabbat —…
- 19.It is permitted to fold the blankets and make…
- 20.A hat that has become dented is permitted to…
- 21.Strictly speaking, it is permitted for a person to…
- 22.A garment soiled with mud or wet clay is…
- 23.Dry mud stuck to shoes is permitted to be…
- 24.It is forbidden to soak a garment in water…
- 25.Some say that if one wants to pour some…
- 26.In any case, one should not pour a large…
- 27.A tablecloth made of nylon, or baby pants made…
- 28.It is permitted to clean a baby bottle nipple…
- 29.Water spilled on Shabbat on the table or on…
- 30.It is permitted to wipe the table on Shabbat…
- 31.It is permitted to clean glasses used on Shabbat;…
- 32.It is permitted to wipe condensation off windows on…
- 33.One who washes his hands on Shabbat — it…
- 34.Ideally, it is good to be careful, when drying…
- 35.It is permitted for a person to wash his…
- 36.One should not wipe a narrow cup that had…
- 37.Some say it is permitted to gently wipe a…
- 38.Nowadays it is permitted to look in an ordinary…
+The Final Hammer-Blow (Makeh BePatish) Applied to GarmentsSiman 302 (continued) · 15 seifim
- 1.One who shakes a new black tallit on Shabbat…
- 2.It is permitted, ideally, to remove feathers from a…
- 3.If one has flax seed or food residue on…
- 4.One who plucks small burrs (nubs) from a garment…
- 5.Therefore one who blows glass into shape, or forms…
- 6.Likewise one who chisels a stone is liable for…
- 7.One who plucks burrs from garments after the weaving…
- 8.The same law applies to one who cuts with…
- 9.If a thorn or splinter got stuck in one's…
- 10.Likewise, one whose clothes got caught on thorns or…
- 11.The basting thread that tailors use, joining pieces of…
- 12.A tallit for the mitzvah, whose tzitzit were attached…
- 13.Wide pants that can only be worn by inserting…
- 14.It is permitted to remove lice or other soiling…
- 15.It is permitted to wrap a turban around one's…
303A Woman's JewelrySiman 303 · 19 seifim
- 1.It is permitted for a woman to go out…
- 2.The custom has already spread to be lenient for…
- 3.It is forbidden for a woman to go out…
- 4.It is permitted for a woman to put a…
- 5.Young girls whose ears are pierced in order to…
- 6.It has already been explained that women are permitted…
- 7.It is permitted for a woman to apply colored…
- 8.It is forbidden for a woman to apply lipstick…
- 9.It is permitted for a woman to eat strawberries…
- 10.It is forbidden for a woman to apply nail…
- 11.It is permitted for a woman to apply rosewater…
- 12.One who had perfume sprayed on his face on…
- 13.It is permitted to add rosewater to foods or…
- 14.One should not add rosewater on Shabbat and Yom…
- 16.It is forbidden for a woman to braid her…
- 17.Special pins that women place in their hair before…
- 18.A man should not curl his sidelocks (pe'ot) on…
- 19.It is rabbinically forbidden to comb one's hair with…
- 20.Strictly speaking, it is permitted to remove dust from…
304How an Animal May Go Out on ShabbatSiman 304 · 3 seifim
- 1.One does not ride an animal on Shabbat, nor…
- 2.One who mistakenly mounted an animal on Shabbat must…
- 3.One who has a non-Jewish boy who rides his…
305Milking an Animal on ShabbatSiman 305 · 12 seifim
- 1.One who milks an animal on Shabbat is liable…
- 2.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to milk…
- 3.In a place where no non-Jew is available, it…
- 4.It is permitted to milk on Shabbat into a…
- 5.All this applies in a place where there are…
- 6.Some permit milking on Shabbat directly over food, in…
- 7.One who milks on Shabbat into an empty vessel,…
- 8.One should not milk an animal on Shabbat even…
- 9.Nowadays there are electric milking machines operated by a…
- 10.Likewise it is permitted to attach the tube to…
- 11.If one attached the tube to the cow's udders…
- 12.A patient suffering from heart pain, whose remedy is…
306What Kinds of Matters Are Permitted to Attend to on ShabbatSiman 306 · 9 seifim
- 1.It is said in Isaiah: "If you turn away…
- 2.Therefore a person should not enter his workplace on…
- 3.It is forbidden for a person to wait at…
- 4.In any case, for the sake of a mitzvah,…
- 5.One should not go on Shabbat to an apartment…
- 6.One building a house is forbidden to enter the…
- 7.It is permitted to examine, on Shabbat, the apartment…
- 8.One walking along his way on Shabbat who sees,…
- 9.It is permitted to walk on Shabbat in the…
+Laws of Payment for Shabbat WorkSiman 306 (continued) · 30 seifim
- 10.One who hires a laborer to guard his apartment,…
- 11.It is permitted to rent out, from before Shabbat,…
- 12.One who brings a woman into his home to…
- 13.It is stated in the verse: "from finding your…
- 14.One who hires a laborer to guard the seeds…
- 15.Some say it is forbidden to hire cantors and…
- 16.Even kashrut supervisors at hotels and restaurants on Shabbat…
- 17.The same law applies: it is permitted for Torah…
- 18.One who gives a regular class and cannot give…
- 19.The custom has spread to hire a shofar-blower for…
- 20.One who hired a teacher to study words of…
- 21.Therefore it is permitted to hire a yeshiva fellow…
- 22.It is permitted to rent out, from before Shabbat,…
- 23.The custom some have, where one observing a yahrzeit…
- 24.One who has taken upon himself to complete a…
- 25.A synagogue that lacks a minyan of worshippers, whose…
- 26.It is permitted for the caretaker of a Tehillim…
- 27.One who immerses in a mikveh on Shabbat and…
- 28.It is permitted to buy shares from a company…
- 29.One should not buy new shares from the stock…
- 30.It is permitted to deposit savings in a bank,…
- 31.Some say it is permitted to lend money to…
- 32.It is permitted to give a book for printing…
- 33.One who rents vessels for a feast held on…
- 34.A company of Jews for repairing traffic lights, whose…
- 35.It is forbidden to be a member of a…
- 36.One staying at a hotel on Shabbat is permitted…
- 37.A doctor summoned on Shabbat to treat a dangerously…
- 38.A secular doctor summoned on Shabbat to treat a…
- 39.A mohel summoned to perform a brit on Shabbat…
+Buying and Selling on ShabbatSiman 306 (continued) · 47 seifim
- 40.It is forbidden to sell and buy on Shabbat,…
- 41.It is forbidden to sell and buy on Shabbat…
- 42.In any case, one who forgot to sell his…
- 43.One who sold chametz to a non-Jew on Friday,…
- 44.Likewise, one who sells an item to a friend…
- 45.One who sells an item to a friend, stipulating…
- 46.One who betroths a woman, saying to her, "You…
- 47.It is permitted to attend a tender/bid process of…
- 48.Just as one does not borrow on Shabbat, one…
- 49.One who swore to repay a friend on a…
- 50.It is permitted to forgive a debt owed by…
- 51.Some say it is forbidden to declare property ownerless…
- 52.One who improperly and intentionally sold an item to…
- 53.It is permitted for a person to open his…
- 54.It is permitted for the buyer to tell the…
- 55.Likewise it is permitted for the buyer to tell…
- 56.It is permitted to leave a store's display window…
- 57.It is forbidden to sit in a non-Jew's store…
- 58.Strictly speaking, it is permitted to enter a non-Jew's…
- 59.It is fitting and proper to refrain from entering…
- 60.It is permitted to buy, while it is still…
- 61.It is permitted to pay, before Shabbat, the admission…
- 62.It is clearly forbidden to use a vending machine…
- 63.It is forbidden to insert a coin or token…
- 64.It is forbidden for the owners of the above-mentioned…
- 65.Some are lenient to set up the above-mentioned machines…
- 66.One whose livelihood consists of setting up self-service washing…
- 67.It is fitting and proper not to give a…
- 68.The custom some have of a synagogue board giving…
- 69.It has already been explained that it is permitted…
- 70.Some, as an act of piety, at the three…
- 71.Even though we explained that, strictly speaking, it is…
- 72.It is permitted to announce a lost item on…
- 73.Likewise it is permitted to announce publicly on Shabbat…
- 74.One who knows that a friend found a lost…
- 75.The custom some have of announcing mitzvah-related matters in…
- 76.It is forbidden to announce on Shabbat about land…
- 77.It is forbidden to weigh on Shabbat, whether with…
- 78.A person should not measure his height on Shabbat.…
- 79.It is permitted for a sick person to take…
- 80.It is permitted for a person to walk on…
- 81.It is permitted to weigh on Shabbat for the…
- 82.It is permitted to measure a cup to see…
- 83.A sick person, even if not dangerously ill, whom…
- 84.A dangerously ill patient eating on Yom Kippur is…
- 85.One preparing food on Shabbat for a baby, who…
- 86.A forbidden substance that fell into a permitted mixture…
307The Law of Telling a Non-Jew to Act on ShabbatSiman 307 · 26 seifim
- 1.Anything forbidden for a Jew to do on Shabbat…
- 2.It is forbidden to hint to a non-Jew on…
- 3.Therefore, one who forgot to turn on a light…
- 4.However, one who forgot to light the gas stove,…
- 5.It is forbidden to write on a note before…
- 6.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew on Shabbat…
- 7.The same applies to a dish cooked to the…
- 8.Something forbidden not by strict law, but only as…
- 9.A Jew who telephones, on Motza'ei Shabbat in Eretz…
- 10.One who knows that his secular relatives abroad call…
- 11.It is permitted for a resident of Eretz Yisrael…
- 12.It is permitted to hint to a trained dog…
- 13.It is forbidden to tell a non-Jew on Shabbat…
- 14.In a case of need, it is permitted to…
- 15.Some say the prohibition of telling a non-Jew applies…
- 16.It is forbidden to give money to a non-Jew…
- 17.Likewise he may say to him, "buy it for…
- 18.It is permitted to write a check to a…
- 19.If a non-Jew comes to the city and offers…
- 20.It is permitted to give a non-Jew clothes to…
- 21.Likewise it is permitted to give him merchandise on…
- 22.It is permitted to give a non-Jew money to…
- 23.A letter that arrives at a Jew's home on…
- 24.Some say one should not say to a non-Jew…
- 25.It is forbidden to tell a non-Jew, "take this…
- 26.One should not tell a non-Jew to wash dishes…
+Laws of Shabbat Dependent on SpeechSiman 307 (continued) · 29 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to speak of weekday matters on…
- 2.Even idle chatter should not be indulged in excessively…
- 3.It is fitting and proper for anyone to whom…
- 4.One visiting a friend on Shabbat should not say…
- 5.A son who hears his father or mother speaking…
- 6.One who hears his wife speaking of weekday matters…
- 7.It is permitted to speak of "the affairs of…
- 8.Ideally, it is proper not to say "tomorrow I…
- 9.Speaking on Shabbat about performing work the next day…
- 10.It is permitted to say on Shabbat, "tomorrow I…
- 11.One who sees a friend on Shabbat is permitted…
- 12.A non-Jew who shows a Jew a coin or…
- 13.All the more so, it is forbidden to give…
- 14.It is permitted to search on Shabbat for a…
- 15.Calculations not needed for Shabbat are, strictly speaking, permitted…
- 16.Even though it is permitted to calculate on Shabbat…
- 17.It is permitted to speak about the price of…
- 18.It is permitted to calculate on Shabbat matters of…
- 19.Therefore it is permitted to calculate on Shabbat how…
- 20.It is forbidden to hire a laborer on Shabbat,…
- 21.It is permitted to hire a non-Jew on Shabbat…
- 22.A person should not tell a friend on Shabbat…
- 23.It is permitted to say to a friend on…
- 24.One who borrows something from a friend on Shabbat…
- 25.Even for a mitzvah matter, one should not use…
- 26.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to give…
- 27.It is permitted for a person to ask a…
- 28.One who was asked by a friend to lend…
- 29.One who borrowed bottles of oil or wine from…
+What Is Permitted to Read on ShabbatSiman 307 (continued) · 29 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to read ordinary documents (shitrei hedyotot)…
- 2.One who invited guests for Shabbat and prepared delicacies…
- 3.It is proper to be stringent not to hold…
- 4.Some have the custom of casting lots among the…
- 5.A caretaker who has a notebook containing the worshippers'…
- 6.Yeshivot and institutions that write on a bulletin board…
- 7.It is permitted to hold a meeting of community…
- 8.It is permitted to read on Shabbat announcements dealing…
- 9.It is forbidden to look at the bus or…
- 10.The custom of being lenient to read, on Shabbat,…
- 11.One walking along his way on Shabbat is permitted…
- 12.The custom of reading, on Shabbat, what is written…
- 13.It is permitted to look in a phone book…
- 14.It is forbidden to read letters and greeting cards,…
- 15.A letter that arrived on Shabbat and has not…
- 16.Letters containing words of Torah are permitted to be…
- 17.A notebook that is partly filled with words of…
- 18.It is permitted to look at a family photo…
- 19.One may be lenient to distribute pictures of rabbis…
- 20.Charity collectors who prepare receipts before Shabbat, and distribute…
- 21.In a case of need, it is permitted to…
- 22.One should not read a newspaper on Shabbat, particularly…
- 23.It is clearly forbidden to read secular newspapers even…
- 24.There is no prohibition whatsoever in reading words of…
- 25.One who authored a book and received the proof…
- 26.A scribe accustomed to proofreading the synagogue's Torah scrolls…
- 27.Secular tales and fables of idle and vain matters,…
- 28.It is proper to be stringent that women too…
- 29.One should study nothing on Shabbat except words of…
+Telling a Non-Jew to Do Something Not Intended as LaborSiman 307 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 27.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to use…
- 28.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to take…
- 29.If they forgot to remove the [interior] light from…
- 30.One who left a tallit, or food items for…
+A Non-Jew Who Performs Work on His Own Initiative for a Jew's BenefitSiman 307 (continued) · 8 seifim
- 31.A non-Jew who comes, on his own initiative, to…
- 32.Regarding what is common nowadays in several hospitals —…
- 33.A non-Jew, or a non-Jewish domestic worker, who comes…
- 34.A non-Jewish domestic worker who sews a button on…
- 35.A maid who washes dishes on Shabbat in an…
- 36.One who is a guest at a hotel on…
- 37.A non-Jew who sees the members of the household…
- 38.The same applies to a non-Jew who sees the…
+Telling a Non-Jew to Prevent a Loss and the LikeSiman 307 (continued) · 18 seifim
- 39.One who has merchandise in his courtyard, and is…
- 40.Likewise it is permitted to say to a non-Jew,…
- 41.A contractor who left bags of cement in the…
- 42.A gas stove lit from before Shabbat, and after…
- 43.If the gas flame was extinguished by wind on…
- 44.A gas stove lit from before Shabbat, with a…
- 45.One who forgot to turn off the electric water…
- 46.One who left his car's headlights on should not…
- 47.If the heating system broke and stopped warming the…
- 48.A Jew who unintentionally opened the refrigerator door on…
- 49.An electric refrigerator whose light they forgot to remove…
- 50.A Shabbat-desecrating Jew who improperly opened the refrigerator despite…
- 51.A child who improperly turned on the radio loudly…
- 52.Paper money that flew from the house into a…
- 53.The custom some have, where a non-Jew comes to…
- 54.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to move…
- 55.One who finds a lost item on Shabbat —…
- 56.Candlesticks, muktzeh on Shabbat and Yom Tov, found in…
+Telling a Non-Jew to Act in a Case of DistressSiman 307 (continued) · 7 seifim
- 57.One walking on the road on Shabbat in places…
- 58.A lens that fell out of its eyeglass frame…
- 59.An alarm system of a store or car that…
- 60.If they forgot to cut toilet paper for use…
- 61.Some say that if a mouse is running around…
- 62.A fluorescent lamp that malfunctioned and is flickering, greatly…
- 63.A shoe that cannot be worn due to a…
+Telling a Non-Jew to Act for the Sake of a MitzvahSiman 307 (continued) · 15 seifim
- 64.Labor forbidden by Torah law should not be permitted…
- 65.If the electricity in the synagogue goes out in…
- 66.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew during bein…
- 67.One who got stuck in an elevator close to…
- 68.An adult Jew locked in a room with a…
- 69.If one lost the key to his apartment and…
- 70.A holy ark containing Torah scrolls that is locked,…
- 71.Likewise, a synagogue locked with a lock whose key…
- 72.A Torah scroll tied with two knots — it…
- 73.Some synagogues abroad have the custom of telling a…
- 74.Some say it is permitted to tell a non-Jew…
- 75.It is forbidden to tell a non-Jew to bring…
- 76.If the eruv string tears on Shabbat, it is…
- 77.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew, on Shabbat,…
- 78.Some say it is forbidden to send food items…
+Telling a Non-Jew to Act for the Sake of a PatientSiman 307 (continued) · 9 seifim
- 79.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to perform…
- 80.One whose fingers were cut in a deep wound…
- 81.A diabetic patient who, on doctor's orders, needs an…
- 82.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to kill…
- 83.During cold weather, when there is a need to…
- 84.A woman who has given birth, from the seventh…
- 85.It is permitted to tell a non-Jew to drive…
- 86.However, a patient who does not need medicine on…
- 87.Some say that if a dangerously ill patient asks…
308A Vessel Whose Function Is for a Permitted PurposeSiman 308 · 43 seifim
- 142.A vessel whose function is for a permitted purpose…
- 143.One who sends a friend to bring him some…
- 144.The same law applies: a chair or music stand…
- 145.Holy books are permitted to be moved even for…
- 146.Catalog books containing pictures and prices of displayed items…
- 147.It is permitted to move the Scroll of Esther…
- 148.Foods and beverages are permitted to be moved even…
- 149.Foods not yet ripened on the tree, not fit…
- 150.Fruits forbidden to eat on Shabbat, such as untithed…
- 151.It is forbidden to move orlah fruits on Shabbat,…
- 152.Food products with no kosher certification at all, where…
- 153.Some have written that one should not move chocolate…
- 154.An egg laid on Shabbat, forbidden to eat that…
- 155.It is permitted to feed a minor something with…
- 156.Foods and beverages found in the freezer compartment of…
- 157.It is permitted to move a frozen challah loaf…
- 158.A cucumber placed in a special jar to pickle…
- 159.It is permitted to move clothing even if he…
- 160.A mitzvah tallit that was cut — if the…
- 161.It is permitted to move the nylon cover normally…
- 162.Galoshes worn over shoes during rainy days are not…
- 163.It is permitted to move a sha'atnez (forbidden wool-linen…
- 164.It is permitted to move paper tissues on Shabbat,…
- 165.It is permitted to move plain paper on Shabbat,…
- 166.It is permitted to move a cup and plate…
- 167.Flowers sitting in water in a vase are permitted…
- 168.Flowers made of fabric or paper are permitted to…
- 169.A flowerpot with dirt in which decorative flowers grow,…
- 170.It is permitted to smell roses and fragrant plants…
- 171.Myrtle branches, on the other Shabbatot of the year,…
- 172.Candy or gum cigarettes with a mint flavor, resembling…
- 173.An ashtray also used for holding waste is permitted…
- 174.Binoculars used for viewing far and near are not…
- 175.A camera and all its parts, and likewise film…
- 176.A fan used to shoo away flies, or to…
- 177.A rug is not muktzeh. For a wall-to-wall carpet,…
- 178.A broom used to sweep the floor of the…
- 179.It is permitted to move a thermos on Shabbat,…
- 180.Vessels requiring immersion [in a mikveh, for kashering new…
- 181.The custom has already spread to wear a battery-operated…
- 182.Likewise it is permitted to wear an electronic watch…
- 183.A wristwatch that has stopped working should not be…
- 184.Even though it is permitted to wear a battery-operated…
+Muktzeh Due to Monetary LossSiman 308 (continued) · 19 seifim
- 21.Muktzeh due to monetary loss (chesron kis) is anything…
- 22.The following are examples of items with the law…
- 23.Some say that expensive candlesticks not lit that particular…
- 24.Jewelry in the home, such as a diamond ring,…
- 25.The law of muktzeh due to monetary loss depends…
- 26.Muktzeh due to monetary loss is forbidden to be…
- 27.A glass vessel that is muktzeh due to monetary…
- 28.Vessels intended for commerce are included in the category…
- 29.However, foods intended for commerce are not considered muktzeh…
- 30.Mitzvah etrogim intended for commerce are muktzeh due to…
- 31.A lulav is forbidden to be moved on Shabbat,…
- 32.On the eve of Pesach that falls on Shabbat,…
- 33.A mohel's knife, even though it is muktzeh due…
- 34.A shechitah or mohel's knife, if it is stuck…
- 35.The custom some caretakers have of giving guests and…
- 36.Pictures hung on the walls of the house for…
- 37.After a brit performed on Shabbat, the foreskin is…
- 38.A wall clock connected to electricity — it is…
- 39.Printed prayers fixed in a frame on the synagogue…
+Muktzeh Due to Its Own NatureSiman 308 (continued) · 55 seifim
- 40.Muktzeh due to its own nature (muktzeh machmat gufo)…
- 41.Muktzeh due to its own nature is forbidden to…
- 42.A corpse falls under the category of muktzeh due…
- 43.One should not be lenient to move muktzeh due…
- 44.Some say secular newspapers are included in the category…
- 45.One who cracks sunflower seeds and almonds on Shabbat,…
- 46.Shells of nuts or eggs are forbidden to be…
- 47.Soft bones not fit for human food, but fit…
- 48.But hard bones not fit even for dogs are…
- 49.It is permitted to peel an egg by hand…
- 50.Peels fit for animal feed common in that city…
- 51.Raw meat, whether unsalted or salted, whether animal, poultry,…
- 52.One who salted meat on Friday and forgot to…
- 53.Therefore, one who forgot to put the meat into…
- 54.If the freezer or refrigerator stops working in the…
- 55.One who wants to take something from the freezer,…
- 56.Sand is muktzeh, and is forbidden to be moved…
- 57.A minor playing on Shabbat in the dirt of…
- 58.A vessel that broke on Shabbat — if the…
- 59.A glass vessel that fell and broke is permitted…
- 60.A door handle that came off its place is…
- 61.A cover of a drainage pipe in the floor…
- 62.A pit open in the public domain, with concern…
- 63.Some say it is permitted to move a get…
- 64.It is permitted to move a mezuzah on Shabbat,…
- 65.One who forgot money or checks in his clothing…
- 66.A house door key is not muktzeh, and has…
- 67.A key ring or chain with a coin hung…
- 68.A coin designated as an amulet, even if it…
- 69.All living animals are muktzeh on Shabbat, and are…
- 70.If chicks climbed onto a basket in the house…
- 71.It is permitted to place food before one's animals,…
- 72.A glass jar containing ornamental fish — it is…
- 73.If a fish dies inside the aquarium, it is…
- 74.It is forbidden to add water to an aquarium…
- 75.A flea on one's skin that is biting is…
- 76.Small dogs, even though they are meant for amusement,…
- 77.A blind person accustomed to walking with a guide…
- 78.Where a pet in the house jumps on the…
- 79.If a cat happens to be sitting on a…
- 80.If ants or flies are found on the table…
- 81.If ants or mosquitoes fall into a cooked dish,…
- 82.One who raises a dog in his home, and…
- 83.A disabled person confined to a wheelchair who bought…
- 84.For Sephardim who follow the view of Maran the…
- 85.Other games, such as building blocks ("Even Pele") and…
- 86.Toys scattered in a room are permitted to be…
- 87.A new button that was never attached to a…
- 88.It is permitted to move a garbage can on…
- 89.A vessel babies use for their needs — if…
- 90.It is permitted to empty the garbage accumulated in…
- 91.If there is dirt on the sink strainer, preventing…
- 92.It is permitted to place nutshells into the sink's…
- 93.It is forbidden to place a stone near a…
- 94.If he did not designate the stone before Shabbat…
+Muktzeh — a Vessel Whose Function Is for a Forbidden PurposeSiman 308 (continued) · 47 seifim
- 95.A vessel whose function is for a forbidden purpose…
- 96.A vessel used most of the time for a…
- 97.The following are some examples of items considered muktzeh…
- 98.It is permitted to move a vessel whose function…
- 99.Likewise, a blacksmith's hammer is permitted to be moved…
- 100.A match that has already been used to light…
- 101.Matches not yet used — some say they are…
- 102.Some say a phone book is muktzeh on Shabbat,…
- 103.Some say that anything with no use except for…
- 104.Some say that something forbidden on Shabbat not by…
- 105.An empty pot intended solely for cooking, with no…
- 106.A pot intended solely for cooking, containing food during…
- 107.A pot containing a loaf of bread and the…
- 108.It is forbidden to move a candle that was…
- 109.There are eight ways in which it is permitted…
- 110.In a case of major loss, or when there…
- 111.It is permitted to move a vessel whose function…
- 112.The permission to move a vessel whose function is…
- 113.If he needs to sit in the place where…
- 114.A vessel whose function is for a forbidden purpose…
- 115.However, if he wants to move a vessel whose…
- 116.One who forgot it was Shabbat, or forgot that…
- 117.Muktzeh that one forgot and picked up in his…
- 118.A needle or pin whose function is for a…
- 119.A pocketknife with various components, including scissors, a nail…
- 120.An electric fan, turned on from before Shabbat, is…
- 121.One should not move an electric lamp, or a…
- 122.It is permitted to move a hearing aid on…
- 123.It is proper to be stringent regarding a radiator…
- 124.An electric water heater turned on from before Shabbat,…
- 125.An urn with a small indicator light on its…
- 126.Some say it is forbidden to move a hot…
- 127.Some say it is permitted to add hot water…
- 128.It is permitted to add water on Shabbat to…
- 129.Water dripping from an air conditioner on Shabbat —…
- 130.An electric baking oven with wheels on its base…
- 131.Some say tefillin have the law of a vessel…
- 132.A tefillin box before the parchment scrolls have been…
- 133.Parchment scrolls removed from tefillin boxes are permitted to…
- 134.A household ladder made to be moved from corner…
- 135.An electric lamp that turned off on Shabbat via…
- 136.Medications have the law of muktzeh on Shabbat for…
- 137.Vitamin pills normally taken even by healthy people are…
- 138.Some say it is forbidden to move weights on…
- 139.A key that starts a car's engine has the…
- 140.A tool or stone used for sharpening a knife…
- 141.It is obviously forbidden to place a cigarette pack…
+The Law of Muktzeh Due to a MitzvahSiman 308 (continued) · 20 seifim
- 201.Decorations hung in the sukkah, and likewise fruits and…
- 202.The sukkah's covering (s'chach) and walls are muktzeh, and…
- 203.The lulav and aravah (willow) are muktzeh on all…
- 204.On the festival day of Sukkot, after fulfilling the…
- 205.A shofar on Rosh Hashanah is permitted to be…
- 206.A door or sliding window that came off its…
- 207.Vessels permitted to be moved on Shabbat whose doors…
- 208.A wet garment placed in a drying machine before…
- 209.Something that was muktzeh on a previous day, but…
- 210.It has already been explained above that an egg…
- 211.An egg with blood on the yolk, which is…
- 212.A chicken coop where hens lay eggs, and over…
- 213.It is permitted to cover a muktzeh item with…
- 214.A person may pick up his young child even…
- 215.It is forbidden to move an empty receipt book…
- 216.It is permitted to move dentures on Shabbat, with…
- 217.Snow and hail are not muktzeh on Shabbat, and…
- 218.It is permitted to put snow or hail into…
- 219.Feathers or dust clinging to clothes are permitted to…
- 220.It is permitted to clean dust off a chair…
310Laws of Muktzeh on Yom TovSiman 310 · 7 seifim
- 221.Muktzeh on Yom Tov is stricter than muktzeh on…
- 222.Fruits intended for commerce — such as at a…
- 223.If a festival falls on Shabbat, one need not…
- 224.It is permitted to move muktzeh on Yom Tov…
- 225.Likewise it is permitted to rake coals and ash…
- 226.On Yom Tov as well, it is proper to…
- 227.One who does not smoke on Yom Tov —…
+A Base for a Forbidden ObjectSiman 310 (continued) · 16 seifim
- 185.An item permitted to be moved, on which a…
- 186.An item becomes a base for a forbidden object…
- 187.Regarding a wallet used to hold bills or coins,…
- 188.The law of the base follows the law of…
- 189.The same law applies to a bird cage from…
- 190.According to those who hold that the law of…
- 191.If both a permitted item and a forbidden item…
- 192.A drawer containing items forbidden to move, such as…
- 193.Candlesticks with Shabbat candles lit in them, with a…
- 194.The Sages forbade rendering a vessel unusable for its…
- 195.It is permitted to place waste into an empty…
- 196.One who cracks seeds or almonds on Shabbat should…
- 197.A tallit and tefillin found in the same bag…
- 198.If one placed money on a pillow, intending it…
- 199.It has already been explained that it is permitted…
- 200.The custom has spread to be lenient even regarding…
314The Prohibition of Building and Demolishing on ShabbatSiman 314 · 34 seifim
- 1.It has already been explained above that it is…
- 2.A shtender (lectern) that can be lowered or raised…
- 3.A sectional (knock-down) bed made for tradesmen or military…
- 4.A collapsible cup is permitted to be taken apart…
- 5.Collapsible cups whose parts connect via grooves all around,…
- 6.Vessel covers, even those made with grooves, are permitted…
- 7.Therefore it is permitted to use a rubber hot…
- 8.The plain custom is to use, on Shabbat, a…
- 9.It is permitted to screw the gas canister into…
- 10.It is permitted to adjust binoculars on Shabbat to…
- 11.It has already been explained above that a lens…
- 12.A mechanically operated watch, needing to be wound by…
- 13.It is permitted to set a watch on Shabbat…
- 14.It is permitted to wear an automatic watch on…
- 15.It is permitted to wear an electronic watch on…
- 16.A rubber pillow used for sleeping is permitted to…
- 17.It is permitted to put water for Shabbat's needs…
- 18.One wearing dentures is permitted to apply, on Shabbat,…
- 19.A grape juice or Tempo bottle closed with a…
- 20.Even if letters are printed on the cap and…
- 21.Milk bags, and likewise closed food packages wrapped in…
- 22.Therefore, the custom some have, when there is a…
- 23.Likewise it is permitted to tear, on Shabbat, the…
- 24.Strictly speaking, it is permitted to open cans on…
- 25.A beverage can with a ring-pull at the top,…
- 26.It is forbidden to water a concrete pour on…
- 27.A strainer placed in the sink that becomes clogged…
- 28.A sink completely clogged on Shabbat is forbidden to…
- 29.A drainpipe carrying water from the roof, into which…
- 30.It is permitted to thread a new lace into…
- 31.It is permitted to attach a coat's hood to…
- 32.Two Eshel yogurt cups connected to each other at…
- 33.It is forbidden to stick, on Shabbat, a hanger…
- 34.It is permitted to hang a picture on Shabbat…
315Things Forbidden Due to the Prohibition of "Ohel" (Making a Tent)Siman 315 · 23 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to make a tent (ohel) on…
- 2.A sukkah whose door serves as one of the…
- 3.It is forbidden to make a tent on Shabbat…
- 4.It is forbidden to place a mat on four…
- 5.It is permitted to hang a curtain on Shabbat…
- 6.A partition made merely for modesty is permitted to…
- 7.It is permitted to hang decorative sheets with images…
- 8.A glass windowpane that broke on Shabbat is permitted…
- 9.The custom some communities have, on Simchat Torah, of…
- 10.A shtender (lectern) fixed to the wall is permitted…
- 11.It is forbidden to spread a cloth or sheet…
- 12.A canopy attached to a baby stroller, which is…
- 13.A folding bed common nowadays is permitted to be…
- 14.It is permitted to open a reclining chair or…
- 15.Likewise it is permitted to open a baby's cradle,…
- 16.It is permitted to open a folding table on…
- 17.It is permitted to place a cloth on the…
- 18.It is permitted to spread a blanket or bedspread…
- 19.It is permitted to place one book here and…
- 20.It is permitted to cover vessels with their lids,…
- 21.The curtain before the holy ark is permitted to…
- 22.It is forbidden to open an umbrella and carry…
- 23.A barrel containing wine or water, not completely full,…
316Trapping on Shabbat, and the Law of Wounding on ShabbatSiman 316 · 21 seifim
- 1.Any creature whose species is normally trapped is forbidden…
- 2.The prohibition of trapping does not apply to a…
- 3.A deer that entered a room on Shabbat, and…
- 4.Some say one must be careful not to close,…
- 5.It is forbidden to trap a snake on Shabbat,…
- 6.Any animal or creeping creature that bites and certainly…
- 7.It is forbidden to trap a flea on Shabbat…
- 8.Some say it is permitted to place poison in…
- 9.It is permitted to use a liquid substance called…
- 10.Lice are formed only from sweat; therefore, strictly speaking,…
- 11.It is forbidden to kill a gecko/spider on Shabbat,…
- 12.It is forbidden to set a trap on Shabbat,…
- 13.One who set up a trap before Shabbat, and…
- 14.One who kills on Shabbat via [mystical] names, and…
- 15.A bird or parrot found in a cage —…
- 16.One who wounds a friend on Shabbat — whether…
- 17.Regarding the practice some have of pinching a person's…
- 18.It has already been explained above that if a…
- 19.It is permitted to remove worms from babies' intestines…
- 20.Water in cisterns in which worms grow is permitted…
- 21.Cheese containing worms is permitted to be eaten even…
317The Forbidden Labors of Tying and UntyingSiman 317 · 14 seifim
- 1.One who ties a permanent knot on Shabbat that…
- 2.But one who ties a permanent knot that is…
- 3.Likewise, one who ties a knot that is a…
- 4.A knot that is neither permanent nor a craftsman's…
- 5.Any knot forbidden to tie on Shabbat is forbidden…
- 6.Any knot intended to be untied within seven days,…
- 7.Any knot that one sometimes reconsiders and permanently undoes…
- 8.Some say one must be careful not to tie…
- 9.An Ashkenazi Torah scroll, normally tied — if it…
- 10.A single knot in a single thread that was…
- 11.It is permitted to tie a knot with a…
- 12.If one tied his shoelace on Friday with a…
- 13.Pants straps that were in the pants' loop and…
- 14.It is forbidden to tie tzitzit strings onto a…
+The Law of Benefiting From Electricity Generated on ShabbatThe Law of Benefiting From Electricity Generated on Shabbat · 41 seifim
- 17.There are God-fearing people in the Holy Land who…
- 18.One who wishes to be stringent and not use…
- 19.Where possible, it is preferable to use gas rather…
- 20.If one improperly lit a candle or electric light…
- 21.An object that was in a dark room, and…
- 22.One whose home experienced an electrical short circuit, and…
- 23.If an electrical short circuit occurred in one's home…
- 24.If an electrical short circuit occurred in one's home…
- 25.If an electrical short circuit occurred in a synagogue,…
- 26.If a stuck page was found in a Torah…
- 27.One whose home experienced an electrical short circuit on…
- 28.A large neighborhood that experienced a power outage on…
- 29.One who leaned against a wall and, without paying…
- 30.One who brought a pot close to a lit…
- 31.Regarding what is common nowadays in several hotels, where…
- 32.It is clearly forbidden to enter, on Shabbat, a…
- 33.A lamp that turns on by itself when the…
- 34.An electric door that opens on its own when…
- 35.One who approached, on Shabbat, a door that opens…
- 36.If two people improperly entered a room that opens…
- 37.A hospital whose entrance is via an electric door,…
- 38.One who lives in an apartment building with a…
- 39.Vending machines placed on city streets, where anyone can…
- 40.One who lives in an apartment building with non-observant…
- 41.A Shabbat-desecrating Jew who improperly opened an electric refrigerator…
- 42.One who improperly and unintentionally cooked on Shabbat in…
- 43.It has already been explained above that one should…
- 44.One who has a secular neighbor who turns on…
- 45.Therefore, a religious soldier who is in a room…
- 46.Even at broadcast stations whose workers are non-Jewish —…
- 47.One should rule that a tape should not be…
- 48.Anyone who values his soul should distance himself entirely…
- 49.A ba'al teshuvah (penitent) who has a video device…
- 50.A broadcast that takes place on Motza'ei Shabbat from…
- 51.It is a great mitzvah to rebuke the masses…
- 52.If someone improperly turned off the electric light in…
- 53.Likewise, if the air conditioner in the room was…
- 54.An apartment building with central heating operating for all…
- 55.One who wishes to be stringent with himself and…
- 56.If one wishes to be stringent with himself and…
- 57.One who lives in an apartment building where secular…
+Benefiting From Shabbat Labor — In Matters of DisputeBenefiting From Shabbat Labor — In Matters of Dispute · 11 seifim
- 58.For anything disputed among the poskim whether it is…
- 59.Therefore, one who placed a cold, mostly-liquid, fully-cooked dish…
- 60.One who placed, on Shabbat, a dish cooked to…
- 61.Likewise, if one opened the pot's cover on Shabbat,…
- 62.One who improperly and intentionally stirred a dish not…
- 63.If one improperly and unintentionally stirred a pot sitting…
- 64.Water heated before Shabbat to a temperature the hand…
- 65.One who poured tea extract into a cup, and…
- 66.One who improperly finely chopped vegetables for a salad…
- 67.One who improperly poured boiling water into a reduced…
- 68.One who improperly placed uncooked water onto an electric…
+Benefiting From Shabbat Labor — Rabbinically Forbidden MattersBenefiting From Shabbat Labor — Rabbinically Forbidden Matters · 12 seifim
- 69.Even for something forbidden on Shabbat only rabbinically —…
- 70.Generally, a person is believed when he says "I…
- 71.If the air conditioner was intentionally turned on on…
- 72.Bread from which challah was not separated before Shabbat,…
- 73.One who improperly and unintentionally separated terumot and ma'aserot…
- 74.According to Maran the Shulchan Aruch, it is strictly…
- 75.If they lit the gas on Yom Tov in…
- 76.One who improperly cooked from the first day of…
- 77.If one improperly insulated a dish before Shabbat with…
- 78.If one forgot and placed a pot before Shabbat…
- 79.One who placed a liquid dish on Shabbat onto…
- 80.A woman who improperly salted meat on Shabbat to…
+Benefiting From Shabbat Labor — Where No Change Was Made to the Item ItselfBenefiting From Shabbat Labor — Where No Change Was Made to the Item Itself · 6 seifim
- 81.A public Shabbat-desecrator who holds a bar mitzvah celebration…
- 82.Water reaching homes via pumping by an electric pump…
- 83.A dish fully cooked before Shabbat, placed on the…
- 84.A Jew who improperly and intentionally brought the synagogue…
- 85.One who improperly selected out waste from food on…
- 86.One who mistakenly selected food from waste on Shabbat…
+Benefiting on Weekdays From Things Made on ShabbatBenefiting on Weekdays From Things Made on Shabbat · 12 seifim
- 87.A Jewish-owned bakery that bakes on Shabbat just as…
- 88.A factory where Jews also work on Shabbat, such…
- 89.Fruits and vegetables brought to market on Sunday, known…
- 90.Glass bottles manufactured at a Jewish-owned factory where, because…
- 91.Paper manufactured by a company that operates on Shabbat…
- 92.Public buses and taxis arriving at the stop at…
- 93.A company for repairing traffic lights whose Jewish workers,…
- 94.One who comes to cross a road on Shabbat…
- 95.A secular driver who, because of our many sins,…
- 96.If one improperly cut a shofar to repair it…
- 97.Tefillin written on Shabbat are invalid, both for the…
- 98.One who unintentionally planted on Shabbat may leave the…
318Cooking via a Derivative of Fire's HeatSiman 318 · 6 seifim
- 19.Just as it is forbidden to cook on Shabbat…
- 20.One who cooks on Shabbat by means of electricity…
- 21.It is forbidden to cook on Shabbat in a…
- 22.Regarding a dry item that was fully cooked before…
- 23.One who kindles a fire on Shabbat by placing…
- 24.One who cooks on Shabbat in the hot waters…
+The Law of Benefiting From Work Performed on ShabbatSiman 318 (continued) · 16 seifim
- 1.One who improperly cooked on Shabbat — if he…
- 2.One who intentionally cooks on Shabbat for his own…
- 3.One who cooked on Shabbat unintentionally — meaning he…
- 4.If one asked a rabbi expert in halachic rulings…
- 5.It is obvious that the law of the prohibition…
- 6.Therefore, one who intentionally laundered on Shabbat is forbidden…
- 7.Likewise, if one improperly hung laundry on Shabbat on…
- 8.A secular, apostate Jew who publicly desecrates Shabbat, who…
- 9.One who cooks during the bein hashemashot of Friday,…
- 10.If one cooked after the stars came out on…
- 11.One who intentionally cooks on Shabbat, such that the…
- 12.Therefore, one whose parents desecrate Shabbat and also cook…
- 13.One who improperly placed unboiled eggs with their shells…
- 14.A dish intentionally cooked on Shabbat that becomes mixed…
- 15.If one poured cold, unboiled water into a dish…
- 16.If one improperly and unintentionally poured cold, unboiled water…
+One Who Slaughters or Cooks for a PatientSiman 318 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 1.One who performs ritual slaughter on Shabbat for the…
- 2.A shochet (ritual slaughterer) coming to slaughter a chicken…
- 3.A non-Jew who cooked on Shabbat for the sake…
- 4.A dish forbiddenly cooked on Shabbat by a non-Jew…
+Laws of Cooking on ShabbatSiman 318 (continued) · 18 seifim
- 1.One who bakes bread on Shabbat, or cooks food,…
- 2.Likewise, one who roasts meat or other foods on…
- 3.Likewise, one who melts wax, fat, or tar, and…
- 4.When a fire breaks out on Shabbat, and one…
- 5.One who improperly placed, on Shabbat, a pot containing…
- 6.Likewise, if one placed dough into an oven on…
- 7.One who placed dough on Shabbat into a baking…
- 8.The prohibition of cooking on Shabbat is not limited…
- 9.The primary liability for the forbidden labor of cooking…
- 10.It is obvious that the forbidden labor of cooking…
- 11.One who heats water or milk on Shabbat until…
- 12.It is forbidden to place water on Shabbat facing…
- 13.A garment wet with water is forbidden to be…
- 14.One who cooks fruit on Shabbat is also liable…
- 15.Even fruits that do not improve at all through…
- 16.It is permitted to place an urn of water…
- 17.In any case, after the fact, if one unintentionally…
- 18.However, it is permitted to place milk or porridge…
+Cooking by the Sun and Its DerivativesSiman 318 (continued) · 5 seifim
- 25.It is permitted to cook by direct sunlight, such…
- 26.If one placed a magnifying glass facing the sun…
- 27.Some say it is permitted to roast an egg…
- 28.It is permitted to open the tap for hot…
- 29.If the water in the solar tank is very…
+Cooking in a First Vessel (Kli Rishon)Siman 318 (continued) · 10 seifim
- 30.A first vessel — that is, a pot that…
- 31.Food or drink that is not fit to eat…
- 32.Pouring from a first vessel cooks to the depth…
- 33.It is permitted to pour hot water from a…
- 34.It is forbidden on Shabbat to open the hot…
- 35.The same law applies that it is forbidden to…
- 36.Likewise, it is forbidden to open the valve in…
- 37.An urn containing hot water that reached a boil,…
- 38.An urn from which hot water is drawn on…
- 39.Strictly by law, it is permitted to pour hot…
+Making Tea on ShabbatSiman 318 (continued) · 5 seifim
- 40.It is forbidden to pour hot water on Shabbat…
- 41.If one cooked the tea leaves before Shabbat, and…
- 42.The same law applies to a tea bag onto…
- 43.One who wishes to prepare tea on Shabbat should…
- 44.One should be stringent not to put a tea…
+Cooking After Soaking in a First VesselSiman 318 (continued) · 1 seifim
Read this siman →+The Law of Stirring a DishSiman 318 (continued) · 1 seifim
Read this siman →+The Law of "the Lower One Prevails"Siman 318 (continued) · 2 seifim
Read this siman →+Laws of a Second VesselSiman 318 (continued) · 8 seifim
- 49.A second vessel does not cook, even if it…
- 50.Some say one should not place soft, quick-cooking items,…
- 51.However, it is permitted to pour hot water from…
- 52.Many are accustomed to putting mint leaves into a…
- 53.Some say that even though a second vessel does…
- 54.Some say that even though a second vessel does…
- 55.For a liquid item there is no law of…
- 56.An item not cooked before Shabbat is forbidden to…
+The Law of Cooking After CookingSiman 318 (continued) · 7 seifim
- 57.There is no prohibition of cooking in an item…
- 58.Some say that whenever most of the dish is…
- 59.A Sephardic yeshiva student studying in a yeshiva of…
- 60.It is permitted for Sephardim and members of the…
- 61.Soup that froze in the freezer and became ice…
- 62.It is permitted to place a pastry (pashtida) facing…
- 63.A pot containing a dish that was placed on…
+Cooking After Baking and RoastingSiman 318 (continued) · 14 seifim
- 64.Just as there is no cooking after cooking in…
- 65.Some say it is forbidden to place slices of…
- 66.It is likewise permitted to put bread into hot…
- 67.It is permitted to put soup croutons into boiling…
- 68.It is permitted to put salt into food even…
- 69.It is forbidden to put ground pepper or turmeric…
- 70.Those accustomed to preparing a kettle of hot water…
- 71.Even communities outside Israel who are accustomed to being…
- 72.A Sephardic yeshiva student studying in a yeshiva of…
- 73.It is forbidden to place, on Shabbat itself, an…
- 74.It is forbidden to place a pot containing an…
- 75.Some say it is forbidden to place, on Friday,…
- 76.An egg onto which boiling water from a first…
- 77.And if the egg was cooked before Shabbat, it…
+Making Coffee on ShabbatSiman 318 (continued) · 1 seifim
Read this siman →+Further Laws of CookingSiman 318 (continued) · 13 seifim
- 79.One who takes a kettle of water off the…
- 80.It is permitted to put sugar into a cup…
- 81.It is permitted to cover a pot containing bones…
- 82.A pot containing a hot dish sitting on the…
- 83.If one transgressed and put the lid back on,…
- 84.A dish that is not fully cooked, sitting on…
- 85.A first vessel that contained hot water, which was…
- 86.A boiling liquid dish that was sitting on a…
- 87.Even though pouring from a first vessel has the…
- 88.It is forbidden to pickle (make kevushim) on Shabbat,…
- 89.It is permitted to put raisins and dried peaches…
- 90.A dried apricot that has become so dry that…
- 91.It is permitted to put, on Friday, a bag…
319Laws of Selecting (Borer)Siman 319 · 15 seifim
- 1.If one has before him food and refuse mixed…
- 2.One who selects refuse out from food on Shabbat,…
- 3.Even if the food is more plentiful than the…
- 4.Likewise, one who selects on Shabbat using a sieve…
- 5.Even if the quantity of refuse is greater than…
- 6.Even if the refuse is coarse and the food…
- 7.One who selects food out from refuse on Shabbat,…
- 8.It is permitted to eat on Shabbat with a…
- 9.What is considered selecting "immediately" that is permitted? If…
- 10.One who is not sitting at a meal, such…
- 11.One who selects food out from refuse on Shabbat…
- 12.Likewise, if one selected by hand food out from…
- 13.But if he selected food out from refuse by…
- 14.One who had before him a mixture of peanuts…
- 15.One who selects forbiddenly on Shabbat — such as…
+Selecting Between Two Types of FoodSiman 319 (continued) · 11 seifim
- 16.If two types of food mixed together were brought…
- 17.Two types of food mixed with one another, and…
- 18.Two types of food mixed together were brought before…
- 19.Therefore, if bones are mixed in a plate, even…
- 20.Likewise, a vegetable salad in which onion is mixed,…
- 21.In any case, if others reclining with him want…
- 22.Even though one who selects food out from food…
- 23.However, two types of fish are considered two types…
- 24.Likewise, if there are pieces of meat that were…
- 25.A fruit forbidden to eat but permitted to benefit…
- 26.Likewise, fruits that differ in taste, such as plums,…
+Selecting in LiquidsSiman 319 (continued) · 9 seifim
- 27.Hard-boiled eggs sitting on top of a dish, distinguishable…
- 28.Likewise, it is permitted to remove on Shabbat a…
- 29.If a fly or mosquito fell into a cup…
- 30.It is permitted to blow on Shabbat on a…
- 31.Cisterns containing water in which worms are found, and…
- 32.A filter installed on the tap need not be…
- 33.Regarding what is common nowadays, that when there is…
- 34.It is permitted to use on Shabbat a kitchen…
- 35.One who drinks a cup of water or other…
+The Law of Selecting for the Sake of OthersSiman 319 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 36.It is permitted to select food out from refuse…
- 37.One who selects a utensil in order to lend…
- 38.In any case, it appears one should be stringent…
- 39.One who selects on Shabbat in order to feed…
+Matters of Selecting During a MealSiman 319 (continued) · 16 seifim
- 40.It is permitted to select on Shabbat the fine…
- 41.It is permitted to select, close to eating, on…
- 42.It is permitted to pluck on Shabbat the fine…
- 43.It is permitted to remove the skin from a…
- 44.It is permitted to take out on Shabbat pieces…
- 45.Some say it is permitted to take out pieces…
- 46.A salt shaker containing grains of rice meant to…
- 47.One who puts a little yogurt into a cup…
- 48.Soup containing various mixed vegetables, or noodles and the…
- 49.A skin (film) that forms on top of cooked…
- 50.A jar of leben or curdled yogurt drink with…
- 51.A can containing a pickled cucumber — some say…
- 52.A can containing fish, and he wants to remove…
- 53.A teapot containing tea concentrate mixed with tea leaves,…
- 54.One who is drinking a raw egg and finds…
- 55.It is obviously permitted to remove on Shabbat everything…
+Selecting Among Fruits and VegetablesSiman 319 (continued) · 16 seifim
- 56.A bowl full of fruit containing rotten fruits not…
- 57.One eating an apple or pear that is partially…
- 58.It is permitted to remove the stem at the…
- 59.For dates or apricots, it is permitted to remove…
- 60.It is permitted to peel garlic or onion, pomegranate…
- 61.Fruits with a peel, such as pears and apples…
- 62.It is permitted to shell nuts and almonds on…
- 63.The same law applies that it is permitted to…
- 64.The permission to peel fruits or vegetables on Shabbat…
- 65.Leaves of lettuce or celery that have rotten and…
- 66.It is permitted to remove by hand on Shabbat…
- 67.The seeds and refuse of a melon are permitted…
- 68.One who is shelling seeds on Shabbat is permitted…
- 69.It is forbidden to put food and refuse into…
- 70.It is permitted to rinse fruits and vegetables of…
- 71.One eating grapes from a cluster on Shabbat should…
+The Law of Selecting Among Garments and UtensilsSiman 319 (continued) · 8 seifim
- 72.Just as there is a prohibition of selecting between…
- 73.In any case, it is permitted to remove garments…
- 74.Knives, spoons, and forks mixed together are permitted to…
- 75.Slips of paper marked with numbers and names of…
- 76.It is permitted for the synagogue sexton and gabbai…
- 77.One who finds sacred writings in the garbage, such…
- 78.A dangerously ill patient whom the doctor has determined…
- 79.Some say one should not recite the blessing on…
+The Forbidden Labor of Winnowing (Zoreh)Siman 319 (continued) · 6 seifim
- 1.One who winnows on Shabbat with a shovel into…
- 2.It is permitted to pour water into a courtyard…
- 3.It is permitted to scatter snuff tobacco into the…
- 4.It is permitted to crack open seeds on Shabbat…
- 5.It is permitted to spray aerosol spray that disperses…
- 6.It is permitted to use "Flit"-brand spray and other…
320Laws of Squeezing on Shabbat, the Forbidden Labor of ThreshingSiman 320 · 12 seifim
- 1.One who squeezes olives on Shabbat to make oil…
- 2.It is rabbinically forbidden to squeeze mulberries or pomegranates…
- 3.Any fruit that people in some locale are accustomed…
- 4.Therefore it is forbidden to squeeze pears, since in…
- 5.Likewise it is forbidden to squeeze apples on Shabbat,…
- 6.Likewise it is forbidden to squeeze mango, clementines, pineapple,…
- 7.Fruits that are not normally squeezed anywhere in the…
- 8.In any case, it appears that squeezing these fruits…
- 9.Some say it is forbidden to cut grapefruits in…
- 10.Some say it is forbidden to suck out with…
- 11.Unripe grapes that are very sour and unfit to…
- 12.Fruits or vegetables pickled in vinegar or brine, and…
+The Law of Squeezing a LemonSiman 320 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 13.It is permitted to squeeze a lemon on Shabbat,…
- 14.In any case, if one is making lemonade, it…
- 15.If one wants to squeeze a lemon into a…
- 16.It is permitted to rub one's hands with a…
+Squeezing Onto FoodSiman 320 (continued) · 6 seifim
- 17.It is permitted to squeeze a cluster of grapes…
- 18.If one squeezes grapes or other fruits into a…
- 19.Regarding those accustomed to putting two or three teaspoons…
- 20.One should not squeeze fruits designated for beverages into…
- 21.Liquids that dripped out on their own on Shabbat…
- 22.One who slices oranges or other fruits, and a…
+Squeezing in Other MattersSiman 320 (continued) · 18 seifim
- 23.One who milks an animal on Shabbat is liable…
- 24.It is forbidden to crush snow or hail by…
- 25.A person may tread with his feet on snow…
- 26.Some say it is permitted to crush snow or…
- 27.In any case, it is permitted to shake the…
- 28.It is permitted to put ice cubes on fruits…
- 29.The law of ice is the same as that…
- 30.It is likewise permitted to pour a little water…
- 31.It is permitted to put ice cubes, or pieces…
- 32.One must be careful in winter not to wash…
- 33.A mikveh whose surface has frozen from the cold…
- 34.Fat congealed on the surface of a pot containing…
- 35.The custom has already become widespread to be lenient…
- 36.All the more so it is permitted to pour…
- 37.It has already been explained above that it is…
- 38.It is permitted to put grapes into a wine…
- 39.A barrel plugged with a flax stopper to seal…
- 40.It is permitted to gently wipe a baby who…
+The Forbidden Labor of Dyeing — and Laws of Dyeing in FoodsSiman 320 (continued) · 21 seifim
- 1.Dyeing is one of the thirty-nine forbidden labors on…
- 2.One who plasters the walls of his house on…
- 3.If one dyed on Shabbat toward evening, and while…
- 4.It is forbidden to dye shoes on Shabbat, even…
- 5.A non-Jew who transgressed and polished shoes on Shabbat…
- 6.It is forbidden for a woman to apply rouge…
- 7.It is forbidden for a woman to color her…
- 8.One eating on Shabbat fruits that leave a mark…
- 9.One eating mulberries or other fruits that stain must…
- 10.It is permitted to place a white bandage over…
- 11.The same law applies to one who has hemorrhoids,…
- 12.It is permitted to soak raisins and dried peaches…
- 13.There is no dyeing in foods; therefore it is…
- 14.Just as there is no dyeing in foods, so…
- 15.It is likewise permitted to make tea on Shabbat…
- 16.It is permitted to add red wine to white…
- 17.Even though we have explained that there is no…
- 18.Some put a jar containing a blue disinfecting agent…
- 19.It is permitted to place food on Shabbat into…
- 20.It is permitted for the mohel to put a…
- 21.Eyeglasses whose lens color changes according to the sun's…
321Laws of Grinding and Kneading on ShabbatSiman 321 · 25 seifim
- 1.One who grinds wheat or barley or the like…
- 2.Likewise one who splits wood with a tool into…
- 3.It is forbidden to grind coffee beans on Shabbat…
- 4.Some say that one who finely chops a vegetable…
- 5.Therefore it is permitted to cut vegetables eaten as…
- 6.What is the measure of "immediately"? If he is…
- 7.It is permitted to cut vegetables on a wooden…
- 8.One who cut onion, radish, and tomatoes very finely…
- 9.If they made a salad for the sake of…
- 10.It is permitted to crumble bread on Shabbat, such…
- 11.It is forbidden to cut vegetables very finely and…
- 12.It is permitted to cut cooked or roasted meat…
- 13.For this reason it is permitted to cut cheese…
- 14.But it is forbidden to grate cheese with a…
- 15.Therefore it is also forbidden to grate a carrot…
- 16.However, it is permitted to peel fruits and vegetables…
- 17.It is permitted to use on Shabbat an "egg…
- 18.It is permitted to crush peppercorns on Shabbat, even…
- 19.Regarding the practice of some to crush nuts and…
- 20.One does not crush salt in a wooden mortar,…
- 21.Dried snuff tobacco that has become like clumped clods…
- 22.It is permitted to rub mud off one's garment…
- 23.It is permitted to grind dried roses and myrtle…
- 24.Peppercorns with a pleasant scent are permitted to be…
- 25.It is permitted to urinate on Shabbat onto mud,…
+Preparing Food on ShabbatSiman 321 (continued) · 13 seifim
- 26.It is forbidden to pickle on Shabbat, since pickling…
- 27.Vegetables pickled in brine, such as squash and cucumbers…
- 28.One who makes a salad on Shabbat from tomatoes…
- 29.It is forbidden to make a large quantity of…
- 30.Therefore it is permitted to scatter sugar on Shabbat…
- 31.Some say it is forbidden to pour wine or…
- 32.It is permitted to mash a banana with fork…
- 33.One who is lenient in a case of need…
- 34.It is permitted to make mayonnaise on Shabbat —…
- 35.In wartime, when there is nothing to eat and…
- 36.It is permitted to spread butter or other spreads…
- 37.Sesame tahini already prepared before Shabbat, and one wants…
- 38.It is permitted to mix water into strong liquor…
322The Law of Nolad (Something Newly Created) on ShabbatSiman 322 · 5 seifim
- 1.An egg laid on Shabbat is forbidden to eat,…
- 2.Fruits that fell from a tree on Shabbat are…
- 3.Some say it is forbidden to freeze water into…
- 4.Some forbid making a soda drink on Shabbat by…
- 5.It is permitted to make soda water on Shabbat…
+The Law of Creating a New Scent on ShabbatSiman 322 (continued) · 6 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to put perfume onto a handkerchief…
- 2.It is permitted to put a pleasant scent or…
- 3.It is permitted to place an etrog on a…
- 4.It is permitted to handle fragrant wood in order…
- 5.One who strolls in his garden on Shabbat or…
- 6.It is permitted to put into the toilet tank…
323Laws of Acquiring Shabbat Necessities on ShabbatSiman 323 · 7 seifim
- 1.One who needs food provisions on Shabbat is permitted…
- 2.All this applies specifically to a Jewish shopkeeper, but…
- 3.Bags of sugar packaged by the kilogram, and the…
- 4.One who needs pomegranates or eggs on Shabbat may…
- 5.One who buys bottles of wine or other beverages…
- 6.It is permitted to pay before Shabbat for various…
- 7.It is likewise permitted to pay before Shabbat for…
+Laws of Washing and Immersing Vessels on ShabbatSiman 323 (continued) · 19 seifim
- 8.It is permitted to wash dishes on Shabbat after…
- 9.Drinking vessels are permitted to be washed all day,…
- 10.It is permitted to wash the silver kiddush cup…
- 11.Some say it is forbidden to polish silverware with…
- 12.It is permitted to clean the windows with a…
- 13.It is permitted to clean eyeglasses with water on…
- 14.If many dishes have accumulated, and if he does…
- 15.Hospitals that need, for reasons of hygiene, to wash…
- 16.Even if the non-Jew washes the dishes with hot…
- 17.If one knows he will need to eat an…
- 18.It is proper to be stringent not to wash…
- 19.It is permitted to wash dishes with a scouring…
- 20.It is permitted to scrub dishes on Shabbat with…
- 21.A woman who cannot wash dishes without rubber gloves…
- 22.It is permitted to place, on Shabbat, the dishes…
- 23.It has already been explained above that new meal…
- 24.When there is doubt whether the utensil requires immersion…
- 25.It is forbidden to sharpen a knife on Shabbat,…
- 26.A cup of wine that a non-Jew drank from…
+Forbidden Substance Mixed Into Permitted Food on ShabbatSiman 323 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 27.A food whose prohibition is rabbinic — such as…
- 28.Torah-level prohibitions, such as non-kosher meat (neveilah) and the…
- 29.Cooked pieces of permitted food that became mixed, dry…
- 30.A forbidden substance that fell into a permitted food,…
+Preparing on Shabbat for the WeekdaySiman 323 (continued) · 31 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to prepare on Shabbat for the…
- 2.It is forbidden to prepare from the first day…
- 3.One who transgressed and cooked from the first day…
- 4.It is permitted to study on Shabbat even matters…
- 5.It is likewise permitted for a lecturer to prepare…
- 6.It is permitted for a prayer leader to read…
- 7.It is permitted to teach a bar mitzvah boy…
- 8.When Purim falls on Sunday, one should not bring…
- 9.It is forbidden to roll a Torah scroll and…
- 10.A person should not say on Shabbat, "I will…
- 11.Meat that has not been salted, and three full…
- 12.One who takes his tallit to the synagogue is…
- 13.In a place with a proper eruv, as a…
- 14.After the third Shabbat meal it is forbidden to…
- 15.Synagogues that hold the third Shabbat meal in a…
- 16.On the festival of Sukkot, and likewise on Shabbat…
- 17.After the third Shabbat meal it is permitted to…
- 18.It has already been explained that it is permitted…
- 19.However, it is forbidden to place dishes inside a…
- 20.It is permitted to wash the cups even after…
- 21.One who knows he will need these dishes again…
- 22.Foods he does not intend to eat anymore on…
- 23.A challah he has no need for on Shabbat,…
- 24.It is forbidden to shake out pillows and cushions…
- 25.When arranging some party for the departure of Shabbat,…
- 26.It is permitted to dress young children in the…
- 27.It is forbidden to bring wine to the synagogue…
- 28.It is proper to be stringent not to place…
- 29.One who comes early to the synagogue for the…
- 30.One who took a book from the cabinet to…
- 31.It is obvious that one who goes on Shabbat…
324Laws of Preparing Food for Animals on ShabbatSiman 324 · 17 seifim
- 1.It is permitted to put food on Shabbat before…
- 2.It is permitted to place his animal upon grass…
- 3.One does not give water or food to bees,…
- 4.Likewise one does not give food to a pig,…
- 5.Likewise one does not give food on Shabbat to…
- 6.Ownerless cats, whose sustenance is not one's responsibility, should…
- 7.Settlements that need to starve the chickens so that…
- 8.It is permitted to kill flies and the like…
- 9.Jaundice patients who place doves on their abdomen, thereby…
- 10.It is permitted to perform medical experiments on animals,…
- 11.It is permitted to shake out a tablecloth on…
- 12.It is permitted to give food to a dog.…
- 13.One may cut up a carcass before dogs even…
- 14.Some are accustomed to give wheat to the birds…
- 15.It is permitted to give food to fish in…
- 16.Some say it is permitted to give an animal…
- 17.It has already been explained above that it is…
325The Prohibition of Benefiting From a Non-Jew's WorkSiman 325 · 15 seifim
- 88.A Jew who told a non-Jew to perform work…
- 89.Therefore, a non-Jew who turned on the light in…
- 90.A non-Jew who turned on the light in a…
- 91.It is permitted to use, on Shabbat, electric light…
- 92.A public restaurant or hotel whose waiters are non-Jewish,…
- 93.A non-Jew who turned on a light on Shabbat…
- 94.A non-Jew who turned on a heater on Shabbat…
- 95.A non-Jew who activated the central heating in a…
- 96.During days of severe heat wave, when the heat…
- 97.If, after several hours, the weather changes and the…
- 98.A non-Jew who boiled water on Shabbat for a…
- 99.A non-Jew who cooked for a Jew's benefit on…
- 100.A non-Jew who shined shoes for a Jew's benefit…
- 101.If he gave his shoes for repair to a…
- 102.It is permitted to have a non-Jew tear open…
+Laws of Muktzeh on Shabbat — General PrinciplesLaws of Muktzeh on Shabbat — General Principles · 20 seifim
- 1.The Sages forbade moving certain objects on Shabbat, and…
- 2.There are several categories of muktzeh: (1) Muktzeh due…
- 3.The Sages forbade moving muktzeh only in the manner…
- 4.Some say that just as it is permitted to…
- 5.An item normally moved with one's body, such as…
- 6.It is permitted to move a muktzeh item by…
- 7.Any muktzeh item is forbidden only regarding moving it,…
- 8.It is permitted to touch a fixed electric lamp…
- 9.It is permitted to sit on a stone or…
- 10.A round muktzeh item, such as an egg laid…
- 11.It is permitted to lean on a car on…
- 12.A small vehicle that shakes on its springs when…
- 13.It is permitted to open a car door in…
- 14.A car door left wide open — if one…
- 15.It is permitted to move muktzeh indirectly (tiltul min…
- 16.Some say that for muktzeh due to monetary loss,…
- 17.It is permitted to clean the table with a…
- 18.If there are peels on a tray, one may…
- 19.If many peels have accumulated on the table, and…
- 20.Peels that have salt on them — one who…
+The Prohibition of Benefiting From a Non-Jew's Labor on ShabbatSiman 325 (continued) · 8 seifim
- 1.A non-Jew who performed labor on Shabbat for the…
- 2.Therefore, regarding the practice of some where a maid…
- 3.Coffee that non-Jews cook on Shabbat for their own…
- 4.Bread baked by a non-Jew on Shabbat for the…
- 5.It is forbidden to tell a non-Jew to bring…
- 6.It is likewise permitted to be lenient in the…
- 7.We hold that a shevut of a shevut is…
- 8.Some say a shevut of a shevut was permitted…
326Laws of Bathing on ShabbatSiman 326 · 14 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to bathe one's entire body in…
- 2.It is permitted to bathe on Yom Tov at…
- 3.Water heated on its own by a solar water…
- 4.It is permitted to shower with cold water on…
- 5.It is permitted to use hot water from a…
- 6.The prohibition of washing one's entire body in hot…
- 7.A person should not rinse his entire body with…
- 8.It is permitted to dry one's hands with an…
- 9.One suffering from stomach pains is forbidden to fill…
- 10.It is permitted to immerse in a mikveh on…
- 11.It is forbidden to enter a bathhouse on Shabbat…
- 12.Women whose night of immersion falls on Friday night,…
- 13.As a matter of strict halachah, it is permitted…
- 14.Some say it is forbidden to wash one's hands…
+Brushing Teeth on ShabbatSiman 326 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 15.One accustomed to brushing his teeth every day with…
- 16.It is permitted to pick between his teeth with…
- 17.It is forbidden to break off pieces of hard…
- 18.It has already been explained above that it is…
327Laws of Anointing on ShabbatSiman 327 · 10 seifim
- 1.As a matter of strict law, it is permitted…
- 2.A patient feeling pain in his body who, per…
- 3.It is permitted for a person to anoint his…
- 4.Some say it is permitted for a woman to…
- 5.It is forbidden to anoint the body with oil…
- 6.One whose back or neck has seized up, and…
- 7.It is permitted to apply perfume water to the…
- 8.It is forbidden to polish shoes on Shabbat, and…
- 9.It is permitted to remove dust from shoes on…
- 10.It is permitted to spray cleaning spray on furniture…
328Laws of a Patient Who Is Not Dangerously Ill on ShabbatSiman 328 · 51 seifim
- 1.For a patient who is not dangerously ill, it…
- 2.For a patient who is not dangerously ill and…
- 3.For a patient who is not dangerously ill, for…
- 4.Therefore, when a doctor says on Shabbat that the…
- 5.The same law applies that it is permitted to…
- 6.Likewise, bread placed in an oven that was lit…
- 7.A patient who has taken to bed, without danger,…
- 8.A patient who is not dangerously ill, found in…
- 9.Even though one does not fill a pillow or…
- 10.When the doctor says a hot dish must be…
- 11.Some say it is permitted to perform, for the…
- 12.A patient with no danger to a limb, whom…
- 13.A prescription written on Shabbat by a doctor for…
- 14.Some say that anything permitted to be done by…
- 15.A patient who is not dangerously ill is considered…
- 16.A patient who is not dangerously ill but has…
- 17.If there is a need to desecrate Shabbat for…
- 18.If the patient needs some medication, and it is…
- 19.It has already been explained above that it is…
- 20.Even though one suffering distress is forbidden to use…
- 21.On very cold days, it is permitted to tell…
- 22.A non-Jew who turned on a heater for the…
- 23.One suffering from heat in the summer months is…
- 24.One suffering from fever, even though the doctor determined…
- 25.One suffering from fever, and they want to moisten…
- 26.One suffering from high fever, even though the doctor…
- 27.A child with a high fever, even though there…
- 28.A patient who is not dangerously ill, whom the…
- 29.An elderly person whose strength has weakened from old…
- 30.However, an eye patient who is at the onset…
- 31.One suffering from eye pain is permitted to apply…
- 32.One who wears contact lenses and suffers from dry…
- 33.Fruits that fell from a tree on Shabbat, which…
- 34.A patient who has taken to bed, without danger,…
- 35.A patient who is not dangerously ill, eating on…
- 36.One suffering ear pain until his whole body becomes…
- 37.One who is hard of hearing and wants to…
- 38.If the baby does not want to nurse, it…
- 39.A baby born in the seventh or eighth month…
- 40.A patient who is not dangerously ill, groaning from…
- 41.It is permitted to measure a patient's temperature on…
- 42.It is permitted to shake and lower the mercury…
- 43.An electronic thermometer should not be used on Shabbat,…
- 44.One with a headache, who nevertheless carries on as…
- 45.A woman who needs to measure her temperature to…
- 46.It is permitted to measure temperature on Shabbat with…
- 47.A patient who is not dangerously ill, who is…
- 48.One who has a palate device for straightening teeth,…
- 49.When there is a patient at home suffering from…
- 50.It is permitted to move a cold-water vaporizer device…
- 51.Some say it is permitted to hang a vaporizer…
+Laws of Taking Medications on ShabbatSiman 328 (continued) · 42 seifim
- 52.A patient who is not dangerously ill and has…
- 53.A patient who is not dangerously ill, whose illness…
- 54.A patient whom doctors have instructed to eat in…
- 55.It is permitted to tear the paper wrapping a…
- 56.A patient who is not dangerously ill and has…
- 57.One who has a minor ailment but carries on…
- 58.However, if he began taking the pills before Shabbat,…
- 59.Some say the prohibition of taking medications on Shabbat…
- 60.Some permit swallowing aspirin pills on Shabbat even for…
- 61.Some say that any medication not intended for treatment…
- 62.One suffering from insomnia who cannot fall asleep except…
- 63.It is permitted to swallow energy pills to ward…
- 64.It is permitted to swallow vitamin pills on Shabbat,…
- 65.One should not be lenient to inject vitamins or…
- 66.A woman who needs to swallow pills over several…
- 67.A woman who needs to take a pill to…
- 68.A healthy person who is not ill at all…
- 69.It is forbidden to insert a suppository into the…
- 70.One feeling severe pain in an internal part of…
- 71.One who feels pain in his stomach that grows…
- 72.A patient with stomach pain, whom the doctor requires…
- 73.One who feels pain in his throat or stomach…
- 74.One suffering from constipation is permitted to eat laxative…
- 75.One suffering from hoarseness is permitted to suck on…
- 76.A prayer leader who wants to clear his voice…
- 77.A prayer leader swallowing a raw egg to clear…
- 78.It is permitted to smell snuff tobacco on Shabbat,…
- 79.One afflicted with a severe cold to the point…
- 80.A person suffering from a severe runny nose that…
- 81.One suffering minor tooth pain is forbidden to take…
- 82.If there is concern of danger due to excessive…
- 83.One who has severe tooth pain, but there is…
- 84.One suffering from heartburn is permitted to eat a…
- 85.One who sweats excessively in summer is permitted to…
- 86.The same law applies that it is permitted to…
- 87.It is permitted for a person to anoint his…
- 88.Some say it is forbidden to exercise on Shabbat…
- 89.It is permitted to take a walk on Shabbat…
- 90.One whose practice is to run lightly every morning…
- 91.One who has suffered a heart attack, and whom…
- 92.It is permitted to diet on Shabbat by limiting…
- 93.It is permitted to sit in the sun on…
+Laws of Bandaging a Wound on ShabbatLaws of Bandaging a Wound on Shabbat · 14 seifim
- 94.It is permitted to bandage a wound on Shabbat…
- 95.If the bandage is too large, one should not…
- 96.A house with a patient who needs bandages, or…
- 97.It is permitted to place an adhesive bandage on…
- 98.As a matter of strict law, it is permitted…
- 99.It is permitted to squeeze the ointment out of…
- 100.It is permitted to apply blood-clotting powder to an…
- 101.It is permitted to remove an adhesive bandage stuck…
- 102.One suffering from hemorrhoids may, while relieving himself, wipe…
- 103.Likewise, one whose nose is dripping blood, and it…
- 104.One who was injured on his forehead or arm…
- 105.One who was injured in his leg, or who…
- 106.A disabled person who walks with crutches, and cannot…
- 107.A sick child who needs to be taken to…
+Laws of Injections on ShabbatLaws of Injections on Shabbat · 2 seifim
- 108.It is permitted to give an injection to a…
- 109.A patient with diabetes who, per the doctor's orders,…
+Laws of a Dangerously Ill Patient on ShabbatSiman 328 (continued) · 77 seifim
- 110.Saving a life (pikuach nefesh) overrides Shabbat, just as…
- 111.Where it is necessary to desecrate Shabbat to save…
- 112.It is a sacred obligation upon every rabbi to…
- 113.Therefore, when there is a woman in labor on…
- 114.A patient whom a specialist doctor requires Shabbat to…
- 115.However, if it is clear that there is no…
- 116.A dangerously ill patient for whom the doctor says…
- 117.One who desecrated Shabbat for the sake of saving…
- 118.One who desecrated Shabbat for the sake of saving…
- 119.When Shabbat is desecrated for the sake of a…
- 120.If the patient himself is able to treat himself…
- 121.In any case, for a patient who is not…
- 122.Some say that when Shabbat is desecrated for a…
- 123.When there is a need to bring food from…
- 124.Likewise, a car in which opening the door causes…
- 125.One who calls a hospital, or a Magen David…
- 126.A public telephone booth, entering which automatically causes a…
- 127.It is permitted for a family relative, or any…
- 128.One who drove a dangerously ill patient to the…
- 129.One who was sent on Shabbat to summon a…
- 130.For any illness that doctors say is dangerous, even…
- 131.If the dangerously ill patient says he needs something…
- 132.Even in internal illness, one must act according to…
- 133.Where there is no doctor available to determine whether…
- 134.A non-Jewish doctor who says there is danger in…
- 135.A Jewish doctor who publicly desecrates Shabbat, who says…
- 136.In any case, if he has a choice between…
- 137.A dangerously ill patient who wants his private doctor…
- 138.If the patient is not particular about a specific…
- 139.One should not rely on a non-Jew who is…
- 140.One who has a high fever that is not…
- 141.A person who fell from a cliff on Shabbat,…
- 142.For any internal wound, such as pain in the…
- 143.An internal wound does not require assessment [by an…
- 144.If the patient feels a great ailment that the…
- 145.Even though we rule, as a matter of halachah,…
- 146.A person who was struck forcefully by iron and…
- 147.One whose finger was caught in a door with…
- 148.A person bitten by one of the lethal crawling…
- 149.A person bitten by a snake is permitted to…
- 150.In places where snakes are commonly lethal, it is…
- 151.A person who swallowed poison or anything dangerous —…
- 152.A remedy that is in the category of a…
- 153.It is forbidden to desecrate Shabbat, even with a…
- 154.In any case, it is permitted to recite the…
- 155.It is permitted to pray for a non-Jewish patient…
- 156.It is permitted to fulfill the mitzvah of visiting…
- 157.A dangerously ill patient who asks that his relative…
- 158.For a dangerously ill patient, for whom Shabbat is…
- 159.If it became necessary to cook medicine on Shabbat…
- 160.A child locked in a room on Shabbat —…
- 161.A young child who is lost and there is…
- 162.A dangerously ill patient for whom the doctor says…
- 163.A dangerously ill patient for whom the doctor says…
- 164.When there is a need to take an X-ray…
- 165.If it is possible to obtain hot water for…
- 166.If they slaughtered an animal or fowl for the…
- 167.When one performs ritual slaughter for a patient on…
- 168.It is obvious that it is permitted to check…
- 169.A person who needs to undergo surgery, and is…
- 170.A dangerously ill patient who cannot be treated except…
- 171.If it became necessary to turn on the electric…
- 172.However, for a dying patient lying in a dark…
- 173.If a Shabbat clock was set to turn off…
- 174.One who underwent hemorrhoid surgery is permitted to sit…
- 175.A healthy person who suffers from mild asthma and…
- 176.A bone that has completely dislocated from its place…
- 177.It is permitted to prepare a medicinal suppository from…
- 178.It is permitted to put spiderwebs on a wound…
- 179.A fingernail that has mostly detached from the finger…
- 180.For a patient who is not dangerously ill, where…
- 181.A young woman who was injured and has a…
- 182.A patient or woman in labor who arrived at…
- 183.One who was required to eat and drink on…
- 184.A patient who is not dangerously ill, even though…
- 185.A patient who is not dangerously ill and needs…
- 186.One who was injured on Shabbat, and the doctor…
329For Whom Shabbat Is DesecratedSiman 329 · 13 seifim
- 1.In our time, Shabbat should be desecrated for any…
- 2.It is clear that Shabbat should be desecrated even…
- 3.The same law applies that Shabbat is desecrated even…
- 4.Shabbat is desecrated even for a dangerously ill patient…
- 5.Shabbat is desecrated even for the sake of saving…
- 6.In our time, Shabbat should be desecrated even for…
- 7.One who attempted suicide by drinking poison and the…
- 8.As a matter of strict law, it is permitted…
- 9.If a fire broke out in a courtyard and…
- 10.One upon whom a collapse fell on Shabbat —…
- 11.The moment of determining death in our time is…
- 12.A building that collapsed, with many people trapped under…
- 13.There is no halachic permission whatsoever to disconnect a…
+Payment to a Doctor for Treatment on ShabbatSiman 329 (continued) · 3 seifim
- 14.It is permitted for a doctor to receive payment…
- 15.If the doctor who treated the patient is not…
- 16.A non-Jewish doctor or nurse who demands payment on…
+The Law of War on ShabbatSiman 329 (continued) · 10 seifim
- 17.One does not begin a war on Shabbat, even…
- 18.One must be careful not to desecrate Shabbat during…
- 19.One who was drafted for war in the midst…
- 20.It is obvious that a soldier should not carry…
- 21.Non-Jews who besieged Jewish towns — if they came…
- 22.Some say that in our time, even if the…
- 23.A town near the border, about which word has…
- 24.Soldiers called to go out to war in the…
- 25.It is permitted for soldiers to go out on…
- 26.When soldiers were forced to go out to fight…
+Laws Related to Police on ShabbatLaws Related to Police on Shabbat · 12 seifim
- 27.It is obvious that it is a sacred obligation…
- 28.Therefore, a thief breaking into an apartment — since…
- 29.Likewise, a thief who broke into an apartment and…
- 30.One who sees a thief breaking into a bank…
- 31.In a case of a quarrel between people on…
- 32.It is obvious that there is no permission whatsoever…
- 33.Therefore, a patient who has been decided to be…
- 34.When there is concern that if testimony is not…
- 35.It is forbidden to take fingerprints on Shabbat and…
- 36.One who sees suspicious movement or suspicious people on…
- 37.One who finds a suspicious object on Shabbat, where…
- 38.An army officer who was asked by the authorities…
330Laws of a Woman in Labor on ShabbatSiman 330 · 26 seifim
- 1.A woman about to give birth has the status…
- 2.When Shabbat is desecrated for a woman in labor,…
- 3.A woman feeling labor contractions on Friday should go…
- 4.All those traveling on Shabbat for the sake of…
- 5.It is obvious that everything permitted for a woman…
- 6.The owner of a car who drove a woman…
- 7.Upon completing the drive, it is forbidden to turn…
- 8.After arriving at the hospital on Shabbat, it is…
- 9.One whose wife is about to give birth and…
- 10.It is preferable to summon an ambulance rather than…
- 11.A woman in labor seized by contractions who is…
- 12.If the woman in labor cannot be calmed until…
- 13.A woman living in one of the settlements outside…
- 14.One traveling on Shabbat for the sake of saving…
- 15.If, upon entering the hospital, they ask him for…
- 16.If the light went out, and there is a…
- 17.A woman in labor preparing to travel to the…
- 18.Some say it is permitted to deliver a non-Jewish…
- 19.A penitent woman who conceived through a forbidden relationship…
- 20.A woman is called a "woman in labor" for…
- 21.If the doctor determines that Shabbat must already be…
- 22.Throughout the entire three days following the birth, calculated…
- 23.All these days are measured from the exact hour…
- 24.A pregnant woman who was killed, God forbid, on…
- 25.For a baby born on Shabbat, Shabbat is desecrated…
- 26.In a case where the woman in labor herself…
331Laws of Circumcision on ShabbatSiman 331 · 49 seifim
- 1.The mitzvah of circumcision overrides Shabbat, as it is…
- 2.Regarding the mitzvah of circumcision on Shabbat, the Sages…
- 3.Everything about circumcision overriding Shabbat applies specifically to a…
- 4.A single witness is believed to say that this…
- 5.The fact that circumcision overrides Shabbat applies specifically to…
- 6.It is absolutely forbidden to photograph or film the…
- 7.A circumcision at its proper time held on Shabbat,…
- 8.In places without an eruv, it is proper to…
- 9.If they forgot to bring the circumcision instruments before…
- 10.The primary halachah for us, following the view of…
- 11.Shabbat is desecrated for the mitzvah of circumcision specifically…
- 12.A baby born on Shabbat by forceps is circumcised…
- 13.A baby born on Shabbat through artificial insemination, or…
- 14.One must be careful that two mohalim not perform…
- 15.One who has never performed a circumcision should not…
- 16.A person is believed to say he has already…
- 17.A mohel who is a resident of outside the…
- 18.A mohel who is a resident of the Land…
- 19.A baby who fell ill and whose circumcision was…
- 20.A baby born during twilight (bein hashmashot), where the…
- 21.A baby born already circumcised, who needs to have…
- 22.A baby born with two layers of skin on…
- 23.A baby born on Friday after sunset, within twenty…
- 24.A baby born on Friday night after the emergence…
- 25.A baby born at the departure of Shabbat before…
- 26.A baby born on Friday, and due to unavoidable…
- 27.A mohel called to perform a circumcision at its…
- 28.It is permitted for mohalim to use the separating…
- 29.A baby born with two foreskins, one over the…
- 30.A tumtum [a baby of indeterminate sex] born on…
- 31.It is permitted to bandage the circumcision wound on…
- 32.After the circumcision, the foreskin is placed in earth.…
- 33.The blood from the suction (metzitzah) is spat onto…
- 34.It is forbidden to circumcise Samaritans on Shabbat, even…
- 35.A baby born on Shabbat to a Jew who…
- 36.A mamzer born on Shabbat is nevertheless circumcised on…
- 37.A Karaite whose son was born on Shabbat, if…
- 38.It is permitted for the mohel to request payment…
- 39.It is forbidden for the mohel to go outside…
- 40.A baby who fell ill and whose circumcision was…
- 41.It is forbidden to circumcise a convert on Shabbat,…
- 42.All this applies specifically to a circumcision that is…
- 43.A baby whose circumcision was postponed due to illness,…
- 44.A baby whose circumcision was postponed due to severe…
- 45.If dried myrtle is distributed to the congregation attending…
- 46.It is permitted to cut off from the myrtle…
- 47.Many are accustomed, when bringing the baby to the…
- 48.A circumcision occurring on Shabbat, where they hold a…
- 49.When singing at a circumcision feast on Shabbat, it…
334Laws of Fire on ShabbatSiman 334 · 25 seifim
- 1.If a fire broke out on Shabbat, and it…
- 2.However, a fire that broke out in a single,…
- 3.A fire that broke out in a multi-story building,…
- 4.When a fire breaks out in chemical plants or…
- 5.Anyone who sees a fire on Shabbat that could…
- 6.It is permitted to call the fire department, even…
- 7.If the police ask him for details about the…
- 8.If a fire broke out in a house, it…
- 9.Some say that everything we said about saving belongings…
- 10.The residents of houses near the fire location, who…
- 11.One who has handwritten manuscripts of Torah novellae, and…
- 12.Some say that if a fire broke out in…
- 13.It is permitted to remove money from the fire…
- 14.A fire that broke out on Shabbat, with no…
- 15.It is likewise permitted to place near the fire…
- 16.After the fire department has been called, and they…
- 17.A fire that caught on a tablecloth on the…
- 18.A fire that broke out in a house, with…
- 19.Electrical wires that tore and fell into the street,…
- 20.If a car accident occurred on Shabbat or a…
- 21.If fuel or oil spilled on the road, creating…
- 22.Likewise, if toxic material was released from a truck…
- 23.A person who fell into a pit on Shabbat,…
- 24.Fire department workers must be careful not to stumble…
- 25.One who unintentionally transgressed the prohibition of Shabbat boundaries…
335The Law of Gathering (Me'amer)Siman 335 · 6 seifim
- 1.One whose fruits scattered in a courtyard, here and…
- 2.It is forbidden to gather any item from its…
- 3.Dried figs formed into a single round mass, or…
- 4.Pearl beads that fell from a necklace that tore…
- 5.A string of pearls made as a children's toy,…
- 6.Regarding the practice of throwing candies in the synagogue…
336The Forbidden Labor of ReapingSiman 336 · 13 seifim
- 1.What constitutes reaping? Whether one reaps grain, or legumes,…
- 2.A detached branch of a fruit tree, standing on…
- 3.It is permitted to break off fragrant herbs and…
- 4.A completely dried-out tree that still has fruit on…
- 5.Plucking fruit from something attached to the ground, even…
- 6.It is permitted to smell myrtle attached to the…
- 7.One who strolls on Shabbat in a garden where…
- 8.As a matter of strict law, it is permitted…
- 9.A pipe that showers water from the roof, which…
- 10.It is forbidden to pluck on Shabbat even from…
- 11.It is forbidden to take a flowerpot from the…
- 12.An avocado pit or bean placed in a vial…
- 13.A perforated flowerpot containing plants, hanging inside the house…
+Climbing a Tree and Stepping on Grass on ShabbatSiman 336 (continued) · 6 seifim
- 1.One does not climb a tree on Shabbat, whether…
- 2.One who climbed a tree on Shabbat unintentionally is…
- 3.Even though one does not make use of a…
- 4.It is permitted to leave laundry hanging on a…
- 5.It is permitted to walk on grass on Shabbat,…
- 6.It is likewise permitted to sit or lie on…
+The Forbidden Labor of SowingSiman 336 (continued) · 13 seifim
- 1.One who sows on Shabbat, in any amount, is…
- 2.Likewise, one who prunes a tree so that it…
- 3.One who waters plants and trees on Shabbat is…
- 4.Therefore, those eating in gardens on Shabbat are forbidden…
- 5.It is likewise forbidden to water flowerpots on Shabbat,…
- 6.Detached vegetables or fruits are permitted to be watered…
- 7.It is permitted to urinate on grass and seeds,…
- 8.One must be careful not to throw seeds on…
- 9.A sink used for washing hands and dishes, where…
- 10.One who places a seed or kernel in the…
- 11.Spice branches and myrtle branches are permitted to be…
- 12.It is permitted to open the shutters and windows…
- 13.It is forbidden to open the glass cover of…
337The Forbidden Labor of PlowingSiman 337 · 4 seifim
- 1.One who digs a hole in a field is…
- 2.If he had a mound in the field and…
- 3.One who weeds around the roots of trees, or…
- 4.One who digs a hole and needs only its…
+The Law of an Unintended ActSiman 337 (continued) · 5 seifim
- 1.It is permitted to go out on Shabbat into…
- 2.What the Sages said, that a person may drag…
- 3.It should be ruled in practice that one should…
- 4.It is permitted for young children to walk on…
- 5.It is permitted to clean feathers off a garment…
+The Law of Sweeping and Cleaning the HouseSiman 337 (continued) · 4 seifim
- 1.Sephardim, who follow the rulings of Maran the Shulchan…
- 2.One does not wash the floor with water on…
- 3.Water spilled on a kitchen countertop — even though…
- 4.A chicken coop where there is a need to…
338Things Forbidden Due to Producing a SoundSiman 338 · 22 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to produce a sound with a…
- 2.It is permitted to clap hands together on Shabbat…
- 3.Even though any sound not produced in the manner…
- 4.One should not tap on the table on Shabbat…
- 5.It is a great mitzvah to abolish the practice…
- 6.The practice of some to applaud on Shabbat after…
- 7.It is permitted to clap one's hands together in…
- 8.Those who snap their thumb against their middle finger,…
- 9.Those who call to their friends on Shabbat and…
- 10.It is forbidden to play a musical instrument, or…
- 11.One should be stringent not to tell a non-Jew…
- 12.We hold that a shevut of a shevut (doubly-attenuated…
- 13.Some say a shevut of a shevut was permitted…
- 14.It is permitted to knock on a door on…
- 15.A door which, upon opening, produces the sound of…
- 16.A bell operating by electric power, hanging on the…
- 17.The custom has already become widespread everywhere to put…
- 18.A curtain (parochet) with bells hanging on it that…
- 19.A device called a "kolon," used by cantors and…
- 20.It is permitted to set an alarm clock before…
- 21.A mechanically-operated alarm clock is permitted to have its…
- 22.A spring-wound alarm clock that began ringing is permitted…
339Several Specific Laws Applicable on ShabbatSiman 339 · 2 seifim
- 1.One does not ride an animal on Shabbat, nor…
- 2.This prohibition against riding an animal on Shabbat applies…
+Swimming in the Sea on ShabbatSwimming in the Sea on Shabbat · 1 seifim
Read this siman →+Judging on Shabbat, and Separating Terumot and Ma'aserotJudging on Shabbat, and Separating Terumot and Ma'aserot · 13 seifim
- 10.Some say that included in the prohibition of judging…
- 11.One does not separate terumot and ma'aserot on Shabbat.…
- 12.The prohibition against separating terumot and ma'aserot on Shabbat…
- 13.One who has doubtfully-tithed produce (demai) in his house…
- 14.If challah was separated on Friday, and the separated…
- 15.One who forgot to separate challah from his guarded…
- 16.A woman who lit candles and accepted Shabbat upon…
- 17.One who baked matzot also for others, and on…
- 18.If the time of twilight has passed and the…
- 19.A woman who accepted Shabbat upon herself while it…
- 20.Some say that if challah was not separated before…
- 21.When the eve of Passover falls on Shabbat, when…
- 22.It is permitted to acquire on Shabbat from ownerless…
+Betrothal and Divorce on ShabbatBetrothal and Divorce on Shabbat · 4 seifim
- 24.For a wedding held on Friday, if the bride…
- 25.One who marries a widow on Shabbat — if…
- 26.Even when the wedding canopy was delayed until Friday…
- 27.One does not divorce a wife with a bill…
+Redemption of the Firstborn on ShabbatRedemption of the Firstborn on Shabbat · 5 seifim
- 28.One does not redeem the firstborn son on Shabbat…
- 29.The prohibition against redeeming the firstborn son on Shabbat…
- 30.In any case, if one transgressed and redeemed the…
- 31.One does not immerse a convert on Shabbat. But…
- 32.For all the above matters, if they were done…
+The Law of a Ship on ShabbatThe Law of a Ship on Shabbat · 3 seifim
- 33.A ship, if it is resting on the sea…
- 34.A ship resting on the sea floor, not sailing…
- 35.In places where it is impossible to go pray…
340The Forbidden Labor of ShearingSiman 340 · 11 seifim
- 1.It is forbidden to cut one's hair or nails…
- 2.One may be lenient to wipe nasal mucus on…
- 3.It is permitted to rub one's beard hairs while…
- 4.It is permitted for women to delouse their daughters'…
- 5.It is permitted to remove lice and other dirt…
- 6.A bandage or adhesive bandage stuck to his body…
- 7.It is forbidden to comb one's hair with a…
- 8.A soldier serving in a non-Jewish army, who received…
- 9.A piece of cooked fowl, where during eating on…
- 10.It is forbidden to cut off a wart from…
- 11.A woman who forgot to cut her nails before…
+The Law of Erasing on ShabbatSiman 340 (continued) · 8 seifim
- 1.One who erases ink on parchment, or wax on…
- 2.A cake or chocolate with something like letters written…
- 3.One who wrote on Friday on the palm of…
- 4.Pages of a book that stuck together not during…
- 5.It is permitted to wipe oneself on Shabbat with…
- 6.One who tears open nylon bags containing food items…
- 7.It is permitted to step on Shabbat on drawings…
- 8.Socks or shoes with numbers or letters printed on…
+The Law of Writing on ShabbatSiman 340 (continued) · 16 seifim
- 1.One who writes two letters on Shabbat is liable…
- 2.One must be careful not to write with his…
- 3.It is permitted to bring a torn piece of…
- 4.Doors of a holy ark on which verses and…
- 5.It is permitted to trace something like letters in…
- 6.It is permitted to mark with his fingernail a…
- 7.In a case of great need, one may rely…
- 8.A book with Assyrian (Hebrew) letters printed on the…
- 9.We have already explained above that, in a case…
- 10.One who wears shoes with letters or raised designs,…
- 11.A combination lock built such that by correctly aligning…
- 12.One who writes on Shabbat on paper with carbon…
- 13.It is forbidden to speak on Shabbat facing a…
- 14.It is obvious that it is forbidden to photograph…
- 15.One who authored a book and received proof pages…
- 16.It is advisable for doctors who need to write…
+The Law of Sewing and Untying on ShabbatSiman 340 (continued) · 8 seifim
- 1.One who sews two stitches on Shabbat is liable,…
- 2.It is forbidden to pull a loosened stitching thread…
- 3.It is permitted to join two pieces of a…
- 4.A drawstring threaded through the edge of a raincoat…
- 5.In a case of need, it is permitted to…
- 6.It is forbidden to put feathers into a pillow…
- 7.A rubber pillow used for sleeping is permitted to…
- 8.One who glues papers together with scribe's glue is…
+The Law of Tearing and Detaching on ShabbatSiman 340 (continued) · 9 seifim
- 1.One who tears a garment on Shabbat because he…
- 2.It is permitted to use disposable diapers on Shabbat,…
- 3.In a case of need, it is permitted to…
- 4.Paper stuck to the lock covering a non-Jew's oven,…
- 5.As a matter of strict law, it is permitted…
- 6.Ideally, one should prepare pre-cut toilet paper before Shabbat.…
- 7.If there is a need on Shabbat to use…
- 8.One whose garment got caught on Shabbat on a…
- 9.Milk bags, and likewise food packages sealed and wrapped…
341Annulment of Vows on ShabbatSiman 341 · 7 seifim
- 1.Vows are annulled on Shabbat if they are for…
- 2.If one vowed not to eat meat, or a…
- 3.Vows not for the sake of Shabbat — such…
- 4.A husband may annul his wife's vows on Shabbat…
- 5.A husband who accepted Shabbat upon himself while it…
- 6.One who swore to pay his friend on a…
- 7.One who swore to perform a labor by a…
342The Law of Twilight (Bein HaShmashot)Siman 342 · 6 seifim
- 1.For all matters forbidden due to rabbinic prohibition (shevut),…
- 2.What was said, that the Sages did not decree…
- 3.Some say that even though the Sages did not…
- 4.If they forgot to light Shabbat candles, it is…
- 5.One who accepted Shabbat upon himself alone may be…
- 6.A woman who lit candles and accepted Shabbat upon…
343The Law of a Minor on ShabbatSiman 343 · 4 seifim
- 1.A minor who eats non-kosher meat (neveilah) or unfit…
- 2.Some say the entire obligation to stop a minor…
- 3.Those accustomed to being lenient, in a place that…
- 4.A minor who cannot yet eat like other people…
344The Law of One Traveling in the Desert on ShabbatSiman 344 · 1 seifim
Read this siman →345The Law of the Four Domains on ShabbatSiman 345 · 16 seifim
- 1.There are four domains regarding Shabbat: a private domain…
- 2.What is a public domain? Streets and marketplaces sixteen…
- 3.It is forbidden by Torah law to take any…
- 4.In our time, an eruv has been established in…
- 5.In our locales, where there is an eruv in…
- 6.Those accustomed not to rely on the eruv, and…
- 7.Those who rely on the eruv may rely on…
- 8.In a place where it becomes known that the…
- 9.Indeed, in our locales where there is an eruv,…
- 10.Some say it is permitted to give a minor…
- 11.Some say it is permitted to give a minor…
- 12.A courtyard containing two houses, in one of which…
- 13.In our time, when many live in proximity to…
- 14.It is clear that one should not carry on…
- 15.A settlement lacking a quorum for prayer, where a…
- 16.Some say that one who carries an item from…
+The Forbidden Labor of KindlingThe Forbidden Labor of Kindling · 7 seifim
- 1.One who kindles any amount on Shabbat is liable…
- 2.Even one who fans coals on Shabbat is liable…
- 3.One who adds oil to a candle on Shabbat…
- 4.A gas burner lit before Shabbat — it is…
- 5.One who melts types of metal on Shabbat in…
- 6.A synthetic garment that, through light rubbing while being…
- 7.One who wears studded shoes and steps on Shabbat…
+The Forbidden Labor of ExtinguishingThe Forbidden Labor of Extinguishing · 3 seifim
- 1.One who extinguishes fire on Shabbat is liable for…
- 2.It is likewise forbidden to extinguish a metal ember…
- 3.A lit gas burner is forbidden to have its…
+A Brief Overview of Matters of Electricity on ShabbatA Brief Overview of Matters of Electricity on Shabbat · 7 seifim
- 1.The view of the majority of later authorities is…
- 2.Operating a transistor radio is also forbidden on Shabbat,…
- 3.The view of the Gaon Chazon Ish is that…
- 4.When there is a dangerously ill patient and there…
- 5.It is forbidden to cook on Shabbat even in…
- 6.Turning off electricity on Shabbat is rabbinically forbidden. Even…
- 7.Regarding the cameras placed in the Old City of…
+Elevators on ShabbatElevators on Shabbat · 3 seifim
- 8.An automatic elevator, which goes up and down without…
- 9.One who gets stuck in an elevator close to…
- 10.Automatically operating escalators have the same law as an…
+The Telephone on ShabbatThe Telephone on Shabbat · 4 seifim
- 11.It is forbidden to use the telephone on Shabbat…
- 12.It is good to disconnect the telephone before the…
- 13.It is permitted to use on Shabbat the special…
- 14.For how one should behave regarding a telephone connected…
+Loudspeaker and Radio on ShabbatLoudspeaker and Radio on Shabbat · 5 seifim
- 15.It is forbidden to turn on a loudspeaker before…
- 16.It is likewise forbidden to set a tape recorder…
- 17.It is forbidden to listen to the radio on…
- 18.One whose neighbor turns on a radio on Shabbat…
- 19.One should not load a tape into a recording…
+The Refrigerator on ShabbatThe Refrigerator on Shabbat · 5 seifim
- 20.As a matter of strict law, it is permitted…
- 21.It is permitted to use an electric cold-water dispenser…
- 22.For how to proceed if they opened the refrigerator…
- 23.For how to proceed with an electric refrigerator whose…
- 24.If a Shabbat-desecrating Jew transgressed and opened the refrigerator…
+Baking Oven and Heating Oven on ShabbatBaking Oven and Heating Oven on Shabbat · 12 seifim
- 25.An electric oven turned on before Shabbat, containing a…
- 26.For instructing a non-Jew to turn on a heater…
- 27.For using an electric blanket on Shabbat, see above,…
- 28.For how to proceed if one forgot to turn…
- 29.An electric door that opens via an electronic eye…
- 30.One who finds himself in a hotel whose rooms…
- 31.For a door that opens via an electric button…
- 32.For a non-Jew who turned on the light in…
- 33.One living in a building with secular neighbors, who…
- 34.An electric door that opens via an electronic eye,…
- 35.One who approached on Shabbat a door that opens…
- 36.For how to proceed with a store's or car's…
+Studying by Electric LightStudying by Electric Light · 17 seifim
- 37.It is permitted to study on Shabbat by the…
- 38.An electric lamp whose light intensity can be increased…
- 39.For how to proceed on Shabbat in a place…
- 40.A fan connected to electricity is permitted to be…
- 41.It is forbidden to handle an electric lamp or…
- 42.Regarding an urn used for hot water, it is…
- 43.An electric lamp that was turned off by a…
- 44.It is permitted to wear on Shabbat a wristwatch…
- 45.If they transgressed and turned on a light on…
- 46.A lamp fixed in the streets that turns on…
- 47.If they transgressed and turned off the electricity in…
- 48.It is forbidden to enter on Shabbat a room…
- 49.It is obvious that it is forbidden to go…
- 50.One who is hard of hearing is permitted to…
- 51.It is permitted to leave an intercom device turned…
- 52.For the law of what happens if one set…
- 53.One should not stand on a scale in order…
+Principles in the Laws of Shabbat — Deliberate Labor and the Law of One Engaged in Unintentional Handling (Mit'asek)Principles in the Laws of Shabbat — Deliberate Labor and the Law of One Engaged in Unintentional Handling (Mit'asek) · 3 seifim
- 1.Resting from labor on the seventh day is a…
- 2.The Torah forbade only a deliberate forbidden act (melechet…
- 3.One who intended to do something permitted and did…
+An Unintended ActAn Unintended Act · 3 seifim
- 4.Things permitted to be done on Shabbat, where during…
- 5.What the Sages said, that a person may drag…
- 6.Some say that an unintended act, which is also…
+Pesik Reisha (Inevitable Result) on ShabbatPesik Reisha (Inevitable Result) on Shabbat · 9 seifim
- 7.One who performed an act which certainly results in…
- 8.Therefore, an electric refrigerator with an electric bulb that…
- 9.However, if the labor would only usually result, but…
- 10.The view of the Rashba is that what the…
- 11.A doubtful pesik reisha is permitted even when the…
- 12.Some say that one who performs a permitted act,…
- 13.Some say that the entire prohibition of a pesik…
- 14.However, if he does not desire the forbidden labor,…
- 15.Therefore, it is permitted to open the door of…
+Indirect Causation (Grama) on ShabbatIndirect Causation (Grama) on Shabbat · 6 seifim
- 16.The Torah forbade only actually performing a labor, but…
- 17.Some say that regarding the forbidden labor of cooking,…
- 18.What was said, that indirect causation is exempted on…
- 19.Some say it is permitted to indirectly cause on…
- 20.Even though the Sages forbade indirect causation on Shabbat,…
- 21.Some say the Sages did not forbid indirect causation…
+Two Who Performed It Together, and a Labor Not Needed for Its Own SakeTwo Who Performed It Together, and a Labor Not Needed for Its Own Sake · 6 seifim
- 22.Two people who together perform a labor on Shabbat…
- 23.One who performs a labor on Shabbat not needed…
- 24.However, if the purpose of the labor is medicinal,…
- 25.Some say that one who performs a labor not…
- 26.Regarding a labor not needed for its own sake…
- 27.Some say that on Yom Tov, all agree that…
+The Law of a Destructive Act (Mekalkel) and Less-Than-the-Minimum-Measure on ShabbatThe Law of a Destructive Act (Mekalkel) and Less-Than-the-Minimum-Measure on Shabbat · 3 seifim
- 28.One who performs a labor in a destructive, spoiling…
- 29.Some say that a pesik reisha (inevitable result) involving…
- 30.Some say that one who performs a labor on…