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# 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 turn off any electric appliance. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:5 </ref> | ||
# It is forbidden to pick up a phone off the receiver | # It is forbidden to pick up a phone off the receiver, speak on a phone, or return the phone to the receiver on Shabbat. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:6,8,9 </ref> | ||
# Some say it's good to unplug the phone before Shabbat so that if someone calls on Shabbat one won't hear it ring. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:10 </ref> | |||
# Someone who's hard of hearing may use a hearing aid which was turned off before Shabbat. It's proper to attached a piece of scotch tape on the button so one doesn't come to turn it off on Shabbat. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:11, Sh"t yabea Omer 1:19(19), Minchat Yitzchak 2:17-8, 3:41, Minchat Shlomo 1:9, Tzitz Eliezer 6:6</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> | ||
