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==Separating non-food items== | ==Separating non-food items== | ||
#It’s forbidden to separate a mixture of non-food items such as clothing or vessels.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:17, Mishna Brurah 319:15, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:1, [[Shabbos]] Kitchen pg 86, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 382), and Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 3 pg 327). See the Aruch HaShulchan 319:7 who is lenient. </ref>According to Sephardim some say that one may be lenient.<ref>[http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=365 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com writes that it's permissible for Sephardim to sort silverware on [[Shabbat]]. Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]], vol 3, pg 330 and 490) and Sh"t Yabia Omer 5:31 | #It’s forbidden to separate a mixture of non-food items such as clothing or vessels.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:17, Mishna Brurah 319:15, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:1, [[Shabbos]] Kitchen pg 86, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 382), and Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 3 pg 327). See the Aruch HaShulchan 319:7 who is lenient. </ref> According to Sephardim some say that one may be lenient.<ref>[http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=365 Rabbi Mansour] on Dailyhalacha.com writes that it's permissible for Sephardim to sort silverware on [[Shabbat]]. Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]], vol 3, pg 330 and 490) and Sh"t Yabia Omer 5:31 are lenient in certain cases.</ref> | ||
#One may not select clothes from the cabinet except right before using them, however, it’d be forbidden to take them out of the closet at night for the next morning.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:68. See, however, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 388) who writes that clothes in a closet is not considered a mixture. </ref> | #One may not select clothes from the cabinet except right before using them, however, it’d be forbidden to take them out of the closet at night for the next morning.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:68. See, however, 39 Melachos (vol 2, pg 388) who writes that clothes in a closet is not considered a mixture. </ref> | ||
#One shouldn’t remove a book from a bookcase except right before one plans on reading it. It’s permissible to remove the book, read a little in it immediately and leave it for later.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:69 </ref> | #One shouldn’t remove a book from a bookcase except right before one plans on reading it. It’s permissible to remove the book, read a little in it immediately and leave it for later.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:69 </ref> | ||
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#One may not remove a drink bottle from a refrigerator where the bottles are jumbled together except for immediate use of drinking (or taking it out to lose its chill and then drink).<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:74 </ref> | #One may not remove a drink bottle from a refrigerator where the bottles are jumbled together except for immediate use of drinking (or taking it out to lose its chill and then drink).<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:74 </ref> | ||
#Ideally, one should eat all the food that was separated in preparation for the meal, however, if there are leftovers of food that was separated for the meal or one changed one’s mind not to eat, the food may be eaten later on [[Shabbat]].<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:75 </ref> | #Ideally, one should eat all the food that was separated in preparation for the meal, however, if there are leftovers of food that was separated for the meal or one changed one’s mind not to eat, the food may be eaten later on [[Shabbat]].<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:75 </ref> | ||
#One is forbidden from sorting a jumbled assortment of toys.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:83 </ref> | #One is forbidden from sorting a jumbled assortment of toys.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:83 </ref> | ||
#One may not organize a stack of papers in an order unless one intends on reading them immediately.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:84 </ref> | #One may not organize a stack of papers in an order unless one intends on reading them immediately.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:84 </ref> | ||
===Silverware=== | |||
# It is forbidden to take a pile of forks and knives and separate them to set the table unless one is doing so immediately before the meal. If the forks and knives are already found in separate sections of a drawer they may be taken separately to set the table and there's no separation involved. <ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 3:86</ref> | |||
#It’s forbidden to sort a mixed group of cutlery to put them into separate compartments. Similarly, it’s forbidden to pick out items of a certain variety, dry them and then place them back in their compartment. Sephardim may have room to be lenient.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:86. See Chazon Ovadia (Shabbat Vol. 4, pg 204) where he is more lenient in this regard.</ref> | |||
#However, it is permitted to take one cutlery at a time, dry it and then place it in its compartment.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:86 </ref> | |||
#Certainly, it’s permissible to sort cutlery even from a mixture so that one can set the table for the meal that’s going to start immediately after sorting the cutlery.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:79 </ref> | |||
#Cutlery of different kind (knife, spoon, fork) and of different functions (cutlery for dairy and cutlery for meat, a serving spoon and a regular spoon) constitute a mixture.<ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 3:78, 80 </ref> | |||
# One solution to separate a pile of silverware in a permitted fashion is to throw the pile of silverware on an empty table or counter and they separate on their own. Then once they are sufficiently far apart from one another then one can take the silverware one needs one at a time.<Ref>Igrot Moshe 4:74:11</ref> | |||
===Separating Cards=== | ===Separating Cards=== | ||
#Separating cards as part of a game, such as where one removes an undesired card, is a question of borer.<ref>Rav Asher Weiss Shabbat p. 327 writes several reasons why it could be allowed to separate cards in order to play cards but concludes that one shouldn't rely on them since they not brought in the earlier poskim. His reasons are perhaps one uses all of the cards equally, so it is considered one type (Rama 319:3). Also, the purpose of the separating isn't to accomplish anything since it is purely a game. Lastly, the cards aren't a food and some say that there isn't borer on non-foods (see Maharshag 1:54, 57).</ref> Some permit it.<ref>Avnei Yishpeh 8:74 based on Rama 319:3 since all of the cards are considered like one type of item.</ref> | #Separating cards as part of a game, such as where one removes an undesired card, is a question of borer.<ref>Rav Asher Weiss Shabbat p. 327 writes several reasons why it could be allowed to separate cards in order to play cards but concludes that one shouldn't rely on them since they not brought in the earlier poskim. His reasons are perhaps one uses all of the cards equally, so it is considered one type (Rama 319:3). Also, the purpose of the separating isn't to accomplish anything since it is purely a game. Lastly, the cards aren't a food and some say that there isn't borer on non-foods (see Maharshag 1:54, 57).</ref> Some permit it.<ref>Avnei Yishpeh 8:74 based on Rama 319:3 since all of the cards are considered like one type of item.</ref> | ||
