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# It is forbidden to speak into a tape recorder even if the recorder was turned on before [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:13 </ref>
# It is forbidden to speak into a tape recorder even if the recorder was turned on before [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:13 </ref>
# It is forbidden to press an electric doorbell on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:14 </ref>
# It is forbidden to press an electric doorbell on [[Shabbat]]. <ref>Menuchat Ahava 24:14 </ref>
# It is forbidden to use a regular elevator on [[Shabbat]]. Some allow using a '[[Shabbat]] elevator' which stops at every floor, while others forbid, and some say one may go up in the [[Shabbat]] elevator but not down. It is forbidden to touch the elevator doors when they are closing. <ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 23:29 permits uses a [[Shabbat]] elevator on [[Shabbat]]. Sefer Maliyot Be[[Shabbat]] (chapters 1 and 7) holds that one may go up in the elevator but not down. Menuchat Ahava 24:15-6 concludes that one shouldn't use the [[Shabbat]] elevator to go up or down unless there is a great need in which case he is lenient to allow going up in the [[Shabbat]] elevator. </ref>
# It is forbidden to use a regular elevator on [[Shabbat]]. Some allow using a '[[Shabbat]] elevator' which stops at every floor, while others forbid, and some say one may go up in the [[Shabbat]] elevator but not down. It is forbidden to touch the elevator doors when they are closing. <ref>Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 23:29 permits uses a [[Shabbat]] elevator on [[Shabbat]]. Sefer Maliyot BeShabbat (chapters 1 and 7) holds that one may go up in the elevator but not down. Menuchat Ahava 24:15-6 concludes that one shouldn't use the [[Shabbat]] elevator to go up or down unless there is a great need in which case he is lenient to allow going up in the [[Shabbat]] elevator. Rav Yosef Henkin (Edut LeYisrael p. 121) rules that for someone who's weak to do a mitzvah such as daven with a minyan, one can be lenient to use an elevator on Shabbat as long as the non-jew is the one who presses the button and not a Jew. He then says one doesn't need to protest someone who is lenient if the non-Jew is pressing the button, but a pious person (baal nefesh) would be strict. </ref>
# It's permitted to open a refrigerator door when the motor is running as long as the light was disabled from before [[Shabbat]], however, when it is not running it's proper not to open the refrigerator. <ref>  
# It's permitted to open a refrigerator door when the motor is running as long as the light was disabled from before [[Shabbat]], however, when it is not running it's proper not to open the refrigerator. <ref>  
* Sh"t Tzitz Eliezer 8:12(4) and 12:92, Eidut LeYisrael p. 122 and 151, Sh"t Minchat Shlomo 1:10, and Shabbos Home (Rabbi Simcha Cohen, vol 2, pg 482) quoting Rav Moshe (even though he was strict in his Teshuvot) are lenient to allow opening the refrigerator even when the motor is off.  
* Sh"t Tzitz Eliezer 8:12(4) and 12:92, Eidut LeYisrael p. 122 and 151, Sh"t Minchat Shlomo 1:10, and Shabbos Home (Rabbi Simcha Cohen, vol 2, pg 482) quoting Rav Moshe (even though he was strict in his Teshuvot) are lenient to allow opening the refrigerator even when the motor is off.