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===For Safety=== | ===For Safety=== | ||
# It is permitted to move something dangerous that is muktzeh such as moving broken glass on the floor of a house.<ref>Shabbat 40a, Rama 308:6. Mishna Brurah 308:29 and 77 clarifies that the leniency applies even if it is for the safety of one person.</ref> If it could be moved with one's body or without tiltul min hasad it should.<ref>Byitzchak Bikareh 308:18</ref> | # It is permitted to move something dangerous that is muktzeh such as moving broken glass on the floor of a house.<ref>Shabbat 40a, Rama 308:6. Mishna Brurah 308:29 and 77 clarifies that the leniency applies even if it is for the safety of one person.</ref> If it could be moved with one's body or without tiltul min hasad it should.<ref>Byitzchak Bikareh 308:18</ref> | ||
===For a Mitzvah=== | |||
# It is forbidden to return a muktzeh item that is found on Shabbat.<ref>Halacha Brurah 266:20 writes that it is forbidden to pick up muktzeh to fulfill the mitzvah of hashavat aveidah. His discussion revolves around whether a mitzvah overrides muktzeh (see Gra 586 and Mishna Brurah there). Another factor is that havadat haveidah is helping someone else financially and as such perhaps it is forbidden to violate something for someone’s else finances. Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata (ch. 20 fnt. 28) quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman as being strict. See there for discussion.</ref> | |||
===Touching Muktzeh=== | ===Touching Muktzeh=== | ||
# It is permitted to touch [[Muktzeh]] if it does not move. Some say that one may not touch [[Muktzeh]] if one’s intent is to serve the [[Muktzeh]] item. <Ref> The Yerushalmi (Beitzah 5:1) states that one may place a vessel over an egg that was laid on [[Shabbat]] as long as the vessel doesn’t touch the egg. The [[Maggid]] Mishneh ([[Shabbat]] 25:23) wonders why there should be a prohibition even if the vessel touches the egg – after all, Chazal forbade only moving [[Muktzeh]]. He answers that since an egg is round, touching it automatically will make it move. The Trumat HaDeshen (67) based on Tosfot (see note 1) argues that covering [[Muktzeh]] for its protection is forbidden since one’s entire intent is for the [[Muktzeh]]. | # It is permitted to touch [[Muktzeh]] if it does not move. Some say that one may not touch [[Muktzeh]] if one’s intent is to serve the [[Muktzeh]] item. <Ref> The Yerushalmi (Beitzah 5:1) states that one may place a vessel over an egg that was laid on [[Shabbat]] as long as the vessel doesn’t touch the egg. The [[Maggid]] Mishneh ([[Shabbat]] 25:23) wonders why there should be a prohibition even if the vessel touches the egg – after all, Chazal forbade only moving [[Muktzeh]]. He answers that since an egg is round, touching it automatically will make it move. The Trumat HaDeshen (67) based on Tosfot (see note 1) argues that covering [[Muktzeh]] for its protection is forbidden since one’s entire intent is for the [[Muktzeh]]. | ||
