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# It is permitted to use an electric blanket on shabbat, provided one does not move the knob that adjusts it. It is proper to place scotch tape on top of the knob in order to prevent oneself from accidentally adjusting the blanket on shabbat. <ref> Igrot Moshe 3.50, Menuchat Ahava 1.24.37, Yechave Da'at 2.49 </ref> | # It is permitted to use an electric blanket on shabbat, provided one does not move the knob that adjusts it. It is proper to place scotch tape on top of the knob in order to prevent oneself from accidentally adjusting the blanket on shabbat. <ref> Igrot Moshe 3.50, Menuchat Ahava 1.24.37, Yechave Da'at 2.49 </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> | ||
# Only elderly and sick people shold use shabbat elevators <ref> Or Letzion 2.47.36 </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 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> | ||
# Some poskim permit opening a refrigerator door only when the motor already is running, while many poskim hold that one may open the door even if the motor is off. <Ref> | # Some poskim permit opening a refrigerator door only when the motor already is running, while many poskim hold that one may open the door even if the motor is off. <Ref> | ||
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* Practical Laws of Shabbat (Rabbi Rafael Soae, p. 335) quotes Kedushat HaShabbat (Rabbi Moshe Harari p. 79) who says that if there’s no other bathroom available other than one which has toilets that automatically flush when one moves away, one may use the toilet because of Kavod HaBriyot. | * Practical Laws of Shabbat (Rabbi Rafael Soae, p. 335) quotes Kedushat HaShabbat (Rabbi Moshe Harari p. 79) who says that if there’s no other bathroom available other than one which has toilets that automatically flush when one moves away, one may use the toilet because of Kavod HaBriyot. | ||
* Rabbi Yisrael Belsky in Shulchan HaLevi 7:7 permits using this type of bathroom if there is no other bathroom available, but if there’s another option, he forbids using the electrical toilet. Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/761805/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Using_Automatic_Bathrooms_on_Shabbos “Using Automatic Bathrooms on Shabbos”]) quotes Rav Belsky as saying that kavod habriyot would not be a leniency in order to wash one’s hands with an automatic sink. </ref> | * Rabbi Yisrael Belsky in Shulchan HaLevi 7:7 permits using this type of bathroom if there is no other bathroom available, but if there’s another option, he forbids using the electrical toilet. Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/761805/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Using_Automatic_Bathrooms_on_Shabbos “Using Automatic Bathrooms on Shabbos”]) quotes Rav Belsky as saying that kavod habriyot would not be a leniency in order to wash one’s hands with an automatic sink. </ref> | ||
==Setting timers before Shabbat== | ==Setting timers before Shabbat== | ||
# It is permitted before [[Shabbat]] to set a timer for lights or other electric appliances to go on or off on [[Shabbat]].<ref>Sh"t Maharam Shik 157, Chazon Ish 38:2, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 13:26, Menuchat Ahava 24:30, Sh"t Yabea Omer 3:17 </ref> | # It is permitted before [[Shabbat]] to set a timer for lights or other electric appliances to go on or off on [[Shabbat]].<ref>Sh"t Maharam Shik 157, Chazon Ish 38:2, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 13:26, Menuchat Ahava 24:30, Sh"t Yabea Omer 3:17 </ref> | ||
