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# | # It is biblically forbidden to tear off a piece of aluminum foil, plastic wrap, or toilet paper from a long roll to a desired size.<ref> Mishna Brurah 340:41 </ref> | ||
# One violates this melacha by sharpening a pencil<ref> See Shabbos 75b where it states that one who drags the end of poles on the ground to sharpen them to a desired size is chayav for Mechateich. See also 39 Melachos (p. 935, note 3). </ref> or by cutting one’s hair or nails to a desired length when using the appropriate tool.<ref> 39 Melachos (p. 936, note 12). This is also a problem of gozez. The Minchat Chinuch in Musach Ha’Shabbos is quoted there stating that nonetheless Brit Mila is not a problem of Mechateich because the only reason we remove the orla is to fulfill Hashem’s commandment. </ref> Biting one’s nails or cutting them off by hand would only be a violation derabanan.<ref> See Mishna Brurah 532:1 where he states that biting and cutting one’s nails is irregular. </ref> | # One violates this melacha by sharpening a pencil<ref> See Shabbos 75b where it states that one who drags the end of poles on the ground to sharpen them to a desired size is chayav for Mechateich. See also 39 Melachos (p. 935, note 3). </ref> or by cutting one’s hair or nails to a desired length when using the appropriate tool.<ref> 39 Melachos (p. 936, note 12). This is also a problem of gozez. The Minchat Chinuch in Musach Ha’Shabbos is quoted there stating that nonetheless Brit Mila is not a problem of Mechateich because the only reason we remove the orla is to fulfill Hashem’s commandment. </ref> Biting one’s nails or cutting them off by hand would only be a violation derabanan.<ref> See Mishna Brurah 532:1 where he states that biting and cutting one’s nails is irregular. </ref> | ||
# One may tear along the perforated lines of small packets of sugar, salt, ketchup, etc., even though one is cutting to a specific size, because the true purpose of the cutting is to create an opening, and one tears on these lines simply because it makes it easier to open the package. When one cuts along the perforations, he merely intends that the contents from the package should not spill out, not to cut the packet to a particular size.<ref> Shmiras Shabbos Ke’hilchata 9:14 note 25, quoting R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and note 16. See also Rabbi Dovid Ribiat “39 Melachos” p. 937, note 16, where both reasons discussed in the above paragraph are brought. </ref> | # One may tear along the perforated lines of small packets of sugar, salt, ketchup, etc., even though one is cutting to a specific size, because the true purpose of the cutting is to create an opening, and one tears on these lines simply because it makes it easier to open the package. When one cuts along the perforations, he merely intends that the contents from the package should not spill out, not to cut the packet to a particular size.<ref> Shmiras Shabbos Ke’hilchata 9:14 note 25, quoting R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and note 16. See also Rabbi Dovid Ribiat “39 Melachos” p. 937, note 16, where both reasons discussed in the above paragraph are brought. </ref> | ||
