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# For example, it’s permissible to open an envelope or a booklet that was stapled shut just for transmission by post by removing the staples. However, it’s forbidden to remove the staples from two papers that were stapled together permanently.<ref> Shemirat Shabbos KeHilchata 28:5 </ref> | # For example, it’s permissible to open an envelope or a booklet that was stapled shut just for transmission by post by removing the staples. However, it’s forbidden to remove the staples from two papers that were stapled together permanently.<ref> Shemirat Shabbos KeHilchata 28:5 </ref> | ||
==Separating pages of a book== | ==Separating pages of a book== | ||
# It’s forbidden to cut or rip pages of a book that were not properly cut through in binding. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 28:1 </ref> | # It’s forbidden to cut or rip pages of a book that were not properly cut through in binding. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 28:1. Biur Halacha 340:14 s.v. vechayav because of koreah and metaken. </ref> | ||
==Toilet paper== | ==Toilet paper== | ||
# Toilet paper or paper towels may not be ripped along perforated edges or not along perforated edges on [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 340:41 writes that [[ripping]] toilet paper in order to wipe is forbidden (Deoritta) as Kore’ah. This is also the opinion of Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:25, Or Letzion 40:6, Orchot [[Shabbat]] (vol 1, 11:21), and Shalmei Yehuda (10:9, pg 171) in name of Rav Elyashiv </ref> Some say in a situation where there’s no other option it’s permissible with a shinui (such as [[ripping]] with one’s elbow). <Ref> Orchot [[Shabbat]] (vol 1, 11:22; 353) quotes Rav Elyashiv who holds that in a situation where there’s no other option it’s permissible with a shinui (such as [[ripping]] with one’s elbow). See Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 11:30 </ref> | # Toilet paper or paper towels may not be ripped along perforated edges or not along perforated edges on [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 340:41 writes that [[ripping]] toilet paper in order to wipe is forbidden (Deoritta) as Kore’ah. This is also the opinion of Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:25, Or Letzion 40:6, Orchot [[Shabbat]] (vol 1, 11:21), and Shalmei Yehuda (10:9, pg 171) in name of Rav Elyashiv </ref> Some say in a situation where there’s no other option it’s permissible with a shinui (such as [[ripping]] with one’s elbow). <Ref> Orchot [[Shabbat]] (vol 1, 11:22; 353) quotes Rav Elyashiv who holds that in a situation where there’s no other option it’s permissible with a shinui (such as [[ripping]] with one’s elbow). See Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 11:30 </ref> |