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==Using | ==Using Electric Appliances== | ||
# It is forbidden to turn on any electric device whether it is plugged into the wall or runs on batteries. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:2 holds that the prohibition involved is that by completing the circuit one creates an electric current in the wire like there is a prohibition to create a fire (Molid) on Shabbat. </ref> | # It is forbidden to turn on any electric device whether it is plugged into the wall or runs on batteries. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:2 holds that the prohibition involved is that by completing the circuit one creates an electric current in the wire like there is a prohibition to create a fire (Molid) on Shabbat. </ref> | ||
# According to many poskim it is Biblically forbidden to turn on an incandescent and fluorescent light bulb. However, if one needs to turn on a light for someone who is mortally sick (see [[Medicine on Shabbat]]) one should turn on a fluorescent instead of an incandescent light bulb. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:3-4 </ref> | |||
# According to many poskim it is Biblically forbidden to turn on oven or warming plate. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:3 </ref> | |||
# In Israel, the widespread minhag is to leave electric appliances running on Shabbat even though the electric companies are run by Jews who violate Shabbat. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:1 </ref> | # In Israel, the widespread minhag is to leave electric appliances running on Shabbat even though the electric companies are run by Jews who violate Shabbat. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:1 </ref> | ||
# It is forbidden to turn off any electric appliance. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:5 </ref> | |||
# It is forbidden to pick up a phone off the receiver and it's forbidden to speak on a phone on Shabbat. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:6,8 </ref> | |||
==Reading by candle light versus light bulb== | ==Reading by candle light versus light bulb== | ||
# One isn’t allowed to read by a candle (wick in oil) on Shabbat because there is Gezerah that one will come to tilt the wick. <Ref> Mishna Shabbat 11a says that it’s forbidden to read by the light of a candle because one will come to tilt the wick. Rashi explains that if one tilts to wick (which is flickering) towards the oil so that it lights well, one will be violating Mavir (lighting a flame on Shabbat, which includes adding fuel to a flame). S”A 275:1 quotes this as halacha. </ref> | # One isn’t allowed to read by a candle (wick in oil) on Shabbat because there is Gezerah that one will come to tilt the wick. <Ref> Mishna Shabbat 11a says that it’s forbidden to read by the light of a candle because one will come to tilt the wick. Rashi explains that if one tilts to wick (which is flickering) towards the oil so that it lights well, one will be violating Mavir (lighting a flame on Shabbat, which includes adding fuel to a flame). S”A 275:1 quotes this as halacha. </ref> | ||
