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#It is forbidden to separate tea packets that are slightly connected with just a string or two.<ref>Menuchat Ahava 3:16:14 holds that it is forbidden to separate tea packets since it is makeh bpatish. Halacha Sheleimah 2:20 isn't concerned for makeh bpatish since the tea bags were completed and functional even before being separated. However, he says that it is koreah to separate them and one could do it with a shinui. Halichot Shabbat v. 2 p. 345 quotes a machloket about separating the tea bags. He says it isn't koreah since one doesn't improve the items and regarding makeh bpatish or mechataich it could be discussed since the bags aren't a bona fide utensil. Shvut Yitzchak v. 14 p. 141 forbids it based on koreah, makeh bpatish, and mechataich.</ref> | |||
# Some say that it is permitted to separate ice popsicles that are connected with a shinui such as tearing them with one's teeth.<Ref>Halacha Sheleimah 2:20 compares separate ice pops sticks to the question of separating yogurts but doesn't address the ice pops in his conclusion. Matanat Moshe 2:765 writes that for Ashkenazim there is what to rely upon to be lenient and for Sephardim it is forbidden. Dor Hamelaktim v. 5 p. 3011 quotes Hilchot Shabbat BShabbat 1:14:38 who forbids separating the Igloo pops because of makeh bpatish and the Minchat Ish 17:11 and Shabbat Hashabbat 14:8 who are lenient. They think that it isn't makeh batish or mechataich since the plastic wrappers aren't a bona fide utensil, it is merely a minimal covering of food. Also, one doesn't care that it is cut in a straight line so it isn't mechataich.</ref> | |||
# Some interesting examples of Makeh BiPatish include bending a pair of eyeglasses back into shape, pulling apart two connected plastic utensils left uncut by the factory, putting new shoelaces into shoes, and fashioning a hook from a wire hanger.<ref> Rav Dovid Ribiat (v. 4, p. 1111-6) </ref> | # Some interesting examples of Makeh BiPatish include bending a pair of eyeglasses back into shape, pulling apart two connected plastic utensils left uncut by the factory, putting new shoelaces into shoes, and fashioning a hook from a wire hanger.<ref> Rav Dovid Ribiat (v. 4, p. 1111-6) </ref> | ||
# Some typical exemptions from Makeh BiPatish are ''derech'' ''tashmisho'' (using things in the way that they are commonly used; adjusting an object as part of its regular mode of use cannot be seen as creating a new object), restoring an item that has not become unusable and lost its original identity, and an improvement that is clearly only temporary.<ref> Rav Dovid Ribiat (v. 4, p. 1131) </ref> | # Some typical exemptions from Makeh BiPatish are ''derech'' ''tashmisho'' (using things in the way that they are commonly used; adjusting an object as part of its regular mode of use cannot be seen as creating a new object), restoring an item that has not become unusable and lost its original identity, and an improvement that is clearly only temporary.<ref> Rav Dovid Ribiat (v. 4, p. 1131) </ref> | ||
==Gezerot Dirabanan== | ==Gezerot Dirabanan== | ||
