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Are matches muktzeh? This depends on the dispute in the rishonim if something is a kli and has almost no permitted use on Shabbat if it is considered muktzeh. The Rashba 154b holds it isn’t muktzeh even if there’s no use at all. The Ramban 154b holds that it isn’t muktzeh even there’s an uncommon use such as using it to cover a pot. Tosfot 36a implies that it is muktzeh unless there is some use.
Are matches muktzeh? This depends on the dispute in the rishonim if something is a kli and has almost no permitted use on Shabbat if it is considered muktzeh. The Rashba 154b holds it isn’t muktzeh even if there’s no use at all. The Ramban 154b holds that it isn’t muktzeh even there’s an uncommon use such as using it to cover a pot. Tosfot 36a implies that it is muktzeh unless there is some use.


Magen Avraham 308:18 writes that a wax candle is a kli shemelachto lisur. Mor Ukesiah argues that it is completely muktzeh since it has no purpose. He compares it to [[muktzeh machmat chisaron kis]] which has no purpose.
Magen Avraham 308:18 writes that a wax candle is a kli shemelachto lisur. Mor Ukesiah argues that it is completely muktzeh since it has no purpose. He compares it to [[muktzeh machmat chisaron kis]] which has no purpose.  


Shemirat Shabbat Khilchata 20:16 is lenient on matches. Chazon Ovadia v. 3 p. 76 is lenient. Chazon Ish 44:13 cited by Shaarei Muktzeh siman 18 p. 156 was strict. Orchot Shabbat v. 2 p. 9 is strict unless it is an extenuating circumstance. He quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach who was strict and Rav Moshe (Igrot Moshe OC 5:22) who was lenient. Shalmei Yehuda 3:11 quotes Rav Elyashiv as strict about matches since today we don’t use it to clean our ears or teeth.
Shemirat Shabbat Khilchata 20:16 is lenient on matches. Chazon Ovadia v. 3 p. 76 is lenient.
 
Chazon Ish 44:13 cited by Shaarei Muktzeh siman 18 p. 156 was strict. Rav Moshe Feinstein (Tiltulei Shabbat p. 84) regarding paper is quoted as being strict. Igrot Moshe 5:22:1 is strict on books which are forbidden to read to consider them muktzeh machmat gufo. [However, in Tiltulei Shabbat (p. 32 fnt. 2) Rav Moshe is quoted as being lenient to move a kli shemelachto lisur even though there's no permitted use such as a candlestick.] Orchot Shabbat v. 2 p. 9 is strict unless it is an extenuating circumstance. He quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach who was strict (Tiltulei Shabbat p. 37 also quotes this from Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata ch. 28 fnt. 80). Shalmei Yehuda 3:11 quotes Rav Elyashiv as strict about matches since today we don’t use it to clean our ears or teeth.


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