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[[Erasing on Shabbat]] is one of the 39 primary melachot of [[Shabbat]].<ref> Mishna [[Shabbat]] 7:2, Daf 73a. Rashi 73a writes that [[erasing]] is a melacha because the numbers written on the boards were sometimes erased when a board was improperly marked see also Rosh (7:9) </ref> The topic of [[writing on Shabbat]] is dealt with on | [[Erasing on Shabbat]] is one of the 39 primary melachot of [[Shabbat]].<ref> Mishna [[Shabbat]] 7:2, Daf 73a. Rashi 73a writes that [[erasing]] is a melacha because the numbers written on the boards were sometimes erased when a board was improperly marked see also Rosh (7:9) </ref> The topic of [[writing on Shabbat]] is dealt with on its own page. | ||
==Definition== | ==Definition== | ||
# The Gemara 75b tells us that if someone erases one letter and there’s room for two letters to be drawn in its place he is chayav<ref> As opposed to if you only write only letter big enough that two letters could fill its place you are patur, the gemara says this is where we see a chumra by mechika that doesn’t exist by koseiv. </ref> | # The Gemara 75b tells us that if someone erases one letter and there’s room for two letters to be drawn in its place he is chayav<ref> As opposed to if you only write only letter big enough that two letters could fill its place you are patur, the gemara says this is where we see a chumra by mechika that doesn’t exist by koseiv. </ref> | ||
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* Kitzur S”A 80:63 and Aruch HaShulchan 340:23 are lenient, while the Mishna Brurah 340:17, Chazon Ish 61:1, and Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata 11:7 permit only breaking the letters in one’s mouth, not cutting them with one’s hands prior to eating. Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/718778/Rabbi_Zvi_Sobolofsky/_Hilchos_Shabbos_Series_Mocheik_-_Removing_Letterss_from_a_cake “Hilchos [[Shabbos]] Series Mocheik Removing Letters from a cake”] min 15-6) states that the minhag to be strict for the Rama is only a chumra. | * Kitzur S”A 80:63 and Aruch HaShulchan 340:23 are lenient, while the Mishna Brurah 340:17, Chazon Ish 61:1, and Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata 11:7 permit only breaking the letters in one’s mouth, not cutting them with one’s hands prior to eating. Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky ([http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/718778/Rabbi_Zvi_Sobolofsky/_Hilchos_Shabbos_Series_Mocheik_-_Removing_Letterss_from_a_cake “Hilchos [[Shabbos]] Series Mocheik Removing Letters from a cake”] min 15-6) states that the minhag to be strict for the Rama is only a chumra. | ||
* See further: Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 11:20, Sh”t Beir Moshe 6:92, Sh”t Az Nidabru 10:8, Sh”t Vayeshev Moshe 1:4 </ref> Sephardim may be lenient. <ref> Sh"t Or Litzion 2:40, Sh”t Yabia Omer O”C 4:38, [https://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipDate=12/24/2006 Rabbi Eli Mansour] </ref> | * See further: Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 11:20, Sh”t Beir Moshe 6:92, Sh”t Az Nidabru 10:8, Sh”t Vayeshev Moshe 1:4 </ref> Sephardim may be lenient. <ref> Sh"t Or Litzion 2:40, Sh”t Yabia Omer O”C 4:38, [https://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipDate=12/24/2006 Rabbi Eli Mansour] </ref> | ||
# Even for those who are strict it is permitted to cut between letters even if that destroys the word, <ref> Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kihilchita 9: footnote 38 </ref> if the letters are baked into the cake itself <ref> Mishna | # Even for those who are strict it is permitted to cut between letters even if that destroys the word, <ref> Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kihilchita 9: footnote 38 </ref> if the letters are baked into the cake itself <ref> Mishna Brurah 340:15, Sh"t Har Tzvi 214, Sh"t Or Litzion 2:40 </ref>, or if the cake was cut before [[Shabbat]] and one simply wants to separate the pieces. <ref> Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kihilchita 11: footnote 30 </ref> | ||
==Letters on a Package== | ==Letters on a Package== | ||
