Opening Bottles, Cans, and Packages: Difference between revisions
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==Metal Can== | ==Metal Can== | ||
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# One should not open a metal can unless one only opens it halfway, removes the content immediately, and throws out the can.<ref> [[Shabbos]] Kitchen (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, pg 187) </ref> | # One should not open a metal can unless one only opens it halfway, removes the content immediately, and throws out the can.<ref> [[Shabbos]] Kitchen (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, pg 187) </ref> Some poskim permit opening them normally if they are intended for one time use.<ref>[https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/opening-cans-on-shabbat-by-rabbi-chaim-jachter Rabbi Jachter] in discussing opening cans on Shabbat shows four approaches in the poskim: | ||
* The Tehillah Ldovid 314:12 thinks it is [[soter]] to open a can since it is a bona fide kli. | |||
* Kaf Hachaim 314:38, Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 9 fnt. 10 citing Rav Shlomo Zalman, and Yachava Daat 2:42 all regard a can as a non-bona fide kli since they are going to be discarded and therefore it is permitted to be opened. | |||
* The Chazon Ish 51:11 held it is [[boneh]] to open a can and make it useful. | |||
* Rav Moshe Feinstein (Igrot Moshe 1:122) holds that in theory if the can is intended to be discarded after its contents are removed then it is like a mere wrapper and not a bona fide kli. Nonetheless, he forbade opening them on Shabbat. See there for his reasons.</ref> | |||
==Milk carton== | ==Milk carton== | ||
