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# It is permitted to read the ingredient list on food products on [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 307.12 </ref>. | # It is permitted to read the ingredient list on food products on [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 307.12 </ref>. | ||
# It is permitted to look in a phone book to find a specific name and address on [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 307.13 </ref> | # It is permitted to look in a phone book to find a specific name and address on [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 307.13 </ref> | ||
# It is permissible to read a pamphlet that has both Torah and advertisements as long as one is careful to not look at the advertisements. <ref> Hazon Ovadia, Volume 5, Page 72; Ach Tov VaHessed, Year 5783, Pages 115-116 </ref> | |||
==Learning Secular Subjects on Shabbat== | ==Learning Secular Subjects on Shabbat== | ||
# According to Sephardim, one should only learn Torah on [[Shabbat]] and one may not learn secular subjects such as science. According to Ashkenazim, many are lenient to allow learning secular wisdom on [[Shabbat]] but a pious person should refrain. <Ref> | # According to Sephardim, one should only learn Torah on [[Shabbat]] and one may not learn secular subjects such as science. According to Ashkenazim, many are lenient to allow learning secular wisdom on [[Shabbat]] but a pious person should refrain. <Ref> | ||
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==Newspapers, Advertisements, Business== | ==Newspapers, Advertisements, Business== | ||
#It is forbidden to read a catalogue of advertisements or anything that has any bearing on finances on [[shabbat]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 307:63, Yalkut Yosef 307.22, Rav Yisrael Belsky in Shulchan Halevi page 90, as well as Menuchat Ahava (vol 1, pg 233) who says this prohibition even applies if your a shopping for a mitzva related item such as the [[arba minim]]. </ref> | #It is forbidden to read a catalogue of advertisements or anything that has any bearing on finances on [[shabbat]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 307:63, Yalkut Yosef 307.22, Rav Yisrael Belsky in Shulchan Halevi page 90, as well as Menuchat Ahava (vol 1, pg 233) who says this prohibition even applies if your a shopping for a mitzva related item such as the [[arba minim]]. </ref> | ||
# It is permissible to read a pamphlet that has both Torah and advertisements as long as one is careful to not look at the advertisements. <ref> Hazon | # It is permissible to read a pamphlet that has both Torah and advertisements as long as one is careful to not look at the advertisements. <ref> Hazon Ovadia, Volume 5, Page 72; Ach Tov VaHessed, Year 5783, Pages 115-116 </ref> | ||
# It is forbidden to read a recipes or a cookbook on Shabbat.<Ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 29:48 writes that it is included in the prohibition of mimso chefsacha. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach thought that if one’s intent is purely to see how the food tastes better and isn’t concerned with how to cook it, maybe it would be considered a book of wisdom. Halacha Brurah (307:90, Amirah Lnochri v. 2 p. 329) writes that based on Rav Shlomo Zalman it is forbidden for Sephardim who hold it is forbidden to learn a science book on Shabbat. He also quotes Beer Moshe 6:67 who was lenient since people are only looking at the recipes for pleasure. Halacha Brurah still holds that it is forbidden. Listen to [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/m/halacha.aspx?id=3230 Rabbi Mansour on dailyhalacha.com] and [http://blog.webyeshiva.org/halacha-yomit-reading-cookbooks-on-shabbat/ Rabbi Brovender] explained this halacha.</ref> | # It is forbidden to read a recipes or a cookbook on Shabbat.<Ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 29:48 writes that it is included in the prohibition of mimso chefsacha. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach thought that if one’s intent is purely to see how the food tastes better and isn’t concerned with how to cook it, maybe it would be considered a book of wisdom. Halacha Brurah (307:90, Amirah Lnochri v. 2 p. 329) writes that based on Rav Shlomo Zalman it is forbidden for Sephardim who hold it is forbidden to learn a science book on Shabbat. He also quotes Beer Moshe 6:67 who was lenient since people are only looking at the recipes for pleasure. Halacha Brurah still holds that it is forbidden. Listen to [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/m/halacha.aspx?id=3230 Rabbi Mansour on dailyhalacha.com] and [http://blog.webyeshiva.org/halacha-yomit-reading-cookbooks-on-shabbat/ Rabbi Brovender] explained this halacha.</ref> | ||
# Many poskim forbid ordering a newspaper that is printed and delivered on Shabbat, while some are lenient if most of the subscribers are non-Jewish.<ref> | # Many poskim forbid ordering a newspaper that is printed and delivered on Shabbat, while some are lenient if most of the subscribers are non-Jewish.<ref> | ||
