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==Letting one's Animal Rest on Shabbat== | ==Letting one's Animal Rest on Shabbat== | ||
# Letting one's animal rest and not do the 39 Melachot on [[Shabbat]] is a | # Letting one's animal rest and not do the 39 Melachot on [[Shabbat]] is a biblical commandment from the Pasuk לְמַעַן יָנוּחַ, שׁוֹרְךָ וַחֲמֹרֶךָ. The prohibition is called [[Shevitat Behemto]].<ref> Shemot 23:12 is the source of [[Shevitat Behemto]]. Rambam [[Shabbat]] 20:1 brings it as halacha as does Yalkut Yosef [[Shabbat]] vol 1: pg. 33. </ref> | ||
# One shouldn't take an animal out on [[Shabbat]] beyond the eruv with anything that doesn't benefit the animal.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 305:1. </ref> There is discussion if this applies to a tag.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 305:17 extends this to a tag. Aruch Hashulchan 305:5 rules stringently even though nowadays a tag shows that the animal has an owner and should not be put to death because of the fear of rabies. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach cited in Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 27 footnote 33 disagrees since these tags are worn for the benefit of the dog. </ref> | # One shouldn't take an animal out on [[Shabbat]] beyond the eruv with anything that doesn't benefit the animal.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 305:1. </ref> There is discussion if this applies to a tag.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 305:17 extends this to a tag. Aruch Hashulchan 305:5 rules stringently even though nowadays a tag shows that the animal has an owner and should not be put to death because of the fear of rabies. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach cited in Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 27 footnote 33 disagrees since these tags are worn for the benefit of the dog. </ref> | ||
# Renting out one's work animal (such as a horse, mule, or donkey) to a non-Jew for [[Shabbat]] is forbidden because the non-Jew may do work with it.<ref> S”A 246:3 </ref> | # Renting out one's work animal (such as a horse, mule, or donkey) to a non-Jew for [[Shabbat]] is forbidden because the non-Jew may do work with it.<ref> S”A 246:3 </ref> | ||
