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# It is forbidden to set a timer before [[shabbat]] to automatically operate a dishwasher on [[shabbat]]. <ref> Menuchat Ahava 1.24.31 </ref> | # It is forbidden to set a timer before [[shabbat]] to automatically operate a dishwasher on [[shabbat]]. <ref> Menuchat Ahava 1.24.31 </ref> | ||
==Sending email on Friday== | ==Sending email on Friday== | ||
# Strictly speaking it is permissible to send an email on Friday afternoon from America to Israel when it is already [[Shabbat]] in Israel or on Saturday night from New York to California where it still is [[Shabbat]] but it's praiseworthy to avoid it. <ref> [http://www.ou.org/webcast_kosher Rav Hershel Schachter] (OU Kosher Webcast, 2011, min 9-13) ruled that strictly speaking it's permissible but it's praiseworthy to avoid it. </ref>However, | # Strictly speaking it is permissible to send an email on Friday afternoon from America to Israel when it is already [[Shabbat]] in Israel or on Saturday night from New York to California where it still is [[Shabbat]] but it's praiseworthy to avoid it. <ref> [http://www.ou.org/webcast_kosher Rav Hershel Schachter] (OU Kosher Webcast, 2011, min 9-13) ruled that strictly speaking it's permissible but it's praiseworthy to avoid it. </ref>However, one may not send it to a non-observant Jew who may look at it on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Practical Laws of [[Shabbat]] (Rabbi Rafael Soae, vol 1, pg 170-1) writes that it's permissible unless one is sending the email to a non-observant Jew who may look at it on [[Shabbat]] in which case it's forbidden because one will be encouraging violation of [[Shabbat]]. </ref> | ||
==Reading by candle light versus light bulb== | ==Reading by candle light versus light bulb== | ||
