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One of the 39 Melachot on Shabbat is dyeing. The primary prohibition is to color a material with dyes, while the Toldah is to create a liquid dye. [1]
Foods
- There's no prohibition of dyeing foods on Shabbat[2] even if one intended on dyeing the food. [3]
- However, dyeing liquor or honey in order that it is more marketable is forbidden because of dyeing besides for performing a weekday activity on Shabbat (Uvda DeChol).[4] Additionally, put dyes in water and leaving it in the sun in order to make dye is a Biblical prohibition.[5]
Liquids
- Since there's no prohibition of dyeing foods, it is permitted to pour red wine into white wine on Shabbat. [6]
- Some permit adding coloring to a liquid if the liquid only becomes weakly colored (not concentrated) and wouldn't be fit to dye something else. [7]
- It is permitted to use a toilet that has a colored soap that colors the incoming water when flushed. [8]
Other Items
Glasses
- Many poskim allow wearing glasses that will darken when you go out into the sun and don't think it's a problem of coloring the lenses. [9]
Sources
- ↑ Rambam (Shabbat 9:13-4)
- ↑ S"A 320:19
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 320:56
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 320:56
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 320:56
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 320:56
- ↑ Or Letzion (v. 1, Siman 29), Kesot HaShulchan (Badei HaShulchan 146:14)
- ↑ Or Letzion (v. 1, Siman 29) permitted to use a toilet that has a colored soap that colors the incoming water when flushed for 4 reasons. (1) The waters don't become a dye, but rather are weakly colored. (2) The dyes aren't permanent and are usually flushed away. (3) One doesn't intend to dye the water. (4) It is a Pesik Reisha DeLo Nicha Leh on a Derabbanan and its Koach Sheni.
- ↑ Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchita 18: footnote 70, Yalkut Yosef Shabbat 3: pg. 377, Sh"t Bitzel Hachochma 4:4, Rabbi Eli Mansour. However, Orchot Shabbat 15:96 is machmir. see Rabbi Ayreh Lebowitz for more on this
