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# In general it’s forbidden to read letters on [[Shabbat]] even of a social or business correspondence. However, if a letter of social correspondence arrived on [[Shabbat]] it’s permissible to read it silently (without moving one’s lips) because it’s possible that it contains crucial information for [[Shabbat]]. However, business letters may not be read on [[Shabbat]] at all. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 29:45. Sh"t Iggerot Moshe 5:21:5 writes that since we no longer get any urgent news in the [[mail]] this doesn't really apply anymore. see also tiltulei [[shabbat]] teshuva 29, the [[Shabbos]] Home of Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen 5:footnote 14, Beer Moshe 6:66, Rav Avigdor Neventzal in Yerushalayim Bimoadeha [[Shabbat]] Kodesh 2 page 260 who agree to be stringent </ref> | # In general it’s forbidden to read letters on [[Shabbat]] even of a social or business correspondence. However, if a letter of social correspondence arrived on [[Shabbat]] it’s permissible to read it silently (without moving one’s lips) because it’s possible that it contains crucial information for [[Shabbat]]. However, business letters may not be read on [[Shabbat]] at all. <Ref>Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 29:45. Sh"t Iggerot Moshe 5:21:5 writes that since we no longer get any urgent news in the [[mail]] this doesn't really apply anymore. see also tiltulei [[shabbat]] teshuva 29, the [[Shabbos]] Home of Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen 5:footnote 14, Beer Moshe 6:66, Rav Avigdor Neventzal in Yerushalayim Bimoadeha [[Shabbat]] Kodesh 2 page 260 who agree to be stringent </ref> | ||
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# [https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/761976/rabbi-aryeh-lebowitz/ten-minute-halacha-newspaper-on-shabbos/ Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz's Ten Minute Halacha on Reading Newspapers on Shabbat] | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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