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# Toilet paper or paper towels may not be ripped along perforated edges or not along perforated edges on [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 340:41 writes that [[ripping]] toilet paper in order to wipe is forbidden (Deoritta) as Kore’ah. This is also the opinion of Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 9:25, Or Letzion 40:6, Orchot [[Shabbat]] (vol 1, 11:21), and Shalmei Yehuda (10:9, pg 171) in name of Rav Elyashiv </ref> Some say in a situation where there’s no other option it’s permissible with a shinui (such as [[ripping]] with one’s elbow). <Ref> Orchot [[Shabbat]] (vol 1, 11:22; 353) quotes Rav Elyashiv who holds that in a situation where there’s no other option it’s permissible with a shinui (such as [[ripping]] with one’s elbow). See Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 11:30 </ref>

# According to Sephardim, one should really rip toilet paper before [[Shabbat]], however if one didn’t then, it’s permissible to rip in order to wipe yet one may not rip on the perforations and preferably this should be done with a shinui (like with one’s foot). <Ref> Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 5, pg 146) in name of Rav Ovadyah Yosef, Sh”t Chelkat Yacov 3:123, Sh”t Hillel Omer 199 </ref>

# Tissues that are slightly connected in order to facilitate that one tissues pulls out the next tissue out of the box, one shouldn't use these tissues on Shabbat.<Ref>[https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgm9gww30vkgw7s/_Rabbi_Willig_Shailos_03_25_2020_.mp3?dl=0 Rav Willig (min 39)] quoting 39 Melachos p. 842 because of the issues of koreah and makeh bpatish</ref>