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# To avoid all forbidden activities with opening bottles and cans on [[Shabbat]], it's preferable to open the bottles and cans before [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:1, [[Shabbos]] Kitchen (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, pg 184) </ref> | # To avoid all forbidden activities with opening bottles and cans on [[Shabbat]], it's preferable to open the bottles and cans before [[Shabbat]]. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:1, [[Shabbos]] Kitchen (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, pg 184) </ref> | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
# Opening containers on [[Shabbat]] involves several prohibited activities including [[ripping]], making a useful container, finishing a vessel, and [[erasing]] letters. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 3, pg 831-2) </ref> | # Opening containers on [[Shabbat]] involves several prohibited activities including [[ripping]], making a useful container, finishing a vessel, and [[erasing]] letters. <ref>39 Melachos (Rabbi Ribiat, vol 3, pg 831-2) </ref> | ||
==Opening a bag or container on Shabbat== | ==Opening a bag or container on Shabbat== | ||
# If a container (bag, can, or bottle) is usually reused after having been emptied are forbidden to open whether or not one intends to reuse it. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:2, [[Shabbos]] Kitchen (pg 187-8) similarly forbids opening wrappers, bags, and boxes, unless one rips it to the extent that the bag is unusable afterwards and one is careful about not [[ripping]] the letters. </ref> | # If a container (bag, can, or bottle) is usually reused after having been emptied are forbidden to open whether or not one intends to reuse it. <ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:2, [[Shabbos]] Kitchen (pg 187-8) similarly forbids opening wrappers, bags, and boxes, unless one rips it to the extent that the bag is unusable afterwards and one is careful about not [[ripping]] the letters. </ref> | ||
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# It’s permissible to rip or cut string that’s used to close a container if it’s impossible to remove the string otherwise as long as cutting spoils it for later use. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:14 </ref> | # It’s permissible to rip or cut string that’s used to close a container if it’s impossible to remove the string otherwise as long as cutting spoils it for later use. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:14 </ref> | ||
==Ripping letter or pictures== | ==Ripping letter or pictures== | ||
# | # The Ashkenazic custom is to avoid [[ripping]] letters when opening a package on [[Shabbat]], while the Sephardic custom is to be lenient in this issue. <Ref> Shemirat [[Shabbat]] Kehilchata 9:13 (quoting Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach) rules it is only rabbinically forbidden to rip through letters when opening a package, as is not considered [[erasing]] in order to write. | ||
* Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky (ibid. min 18) explains that strictly speaking, it should be permitted to tear through letters for the same reasons that the Dagul Meirvavah permitted cutting letters on a cake. The minhag, though, is to be strict. Yalkut Yosef ([[Shabbat]] vol 5, p. 117) permits tearing through letters because it is a psik reisha d’lo nicha lei on a rabbinic prohibition. </ref> | |||
==Closing bags== | ==Closing bags== | ||
# One may not close a bag with a metal or plastic twister. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:13 </ref> | # One may not close a bag with a metal or plastic twister. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 9:13 </ref> | ||
