Opening Bottles, Cans, and Packages: Difference between revisions
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==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. | # 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> | * 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> | ||
