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# It’s permissible to use a swing suspended from a swing set. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 140), Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 16:16 </ref> | # It’s permissible to use a swing suspended from a swing set. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 140), Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 16:16 </ref> | ||
# Some permit using a swing suspended from a tree as long as the tree doesn’t shake when used; however, a tire suspended from a tree shouldn’t be used. Others forbid all swings suspending from a tree unless the swing suspends from a pole that’s attached to two trees. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 140) is lenient, while Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 16:16 is stringent. </ref> | # Some permit using a swing suspended from a tree as long as the tree doesn’t shake when used; however, a tire suspended from a tree shouldn’t be used. Others forbid all swings suspending from a tree unless the swing suspends from a pole that’s attached to two trees. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 140) is lenient, while Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 16:16 is stringent. </ref> | ||
==Toy | ==Toy Car== | ||
# It’s permissible to wind up a spring motorized toy on [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 139), Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 16:14</ref> | # It’s permissible to wind up a spring motorized toy on [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 139), Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 16:14. Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman who explains that winding the toy isn't similar to winding a watch that stopped (Mishna Brurah 338:15) since the watch is meant to work always to tell the time and when it stopped it is broken but a windup toy only works when you wind it.</ref> | ||
# Before [[Shabbat]] one must remove batteries from a battery run toy in order that the child can play with it on [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 139) </ref> | # Before [[Shabbat]] one must remove batteries from a battery run toy in order that the child can play with it on [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Children in Halacha (pg 139) </ref> | ||
==Binoculars and Telescopes== | ==Binoculars and Telescopes== | ||
# It is permissible to use binoculars or a telescope on [[Shabbat]], provided that no electricity or special assembly equipment is used. <ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchita 16:45 </ref> | # It is permissible to use binoculars or a telescope on [[Shabbat]], provided that no electricity or special assembly equipment is used. <ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchita 16:45 </ref> | ||
