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==Taking a Walk and Running== | |||
# Children who get pleasure out of jump and running may do so on Shabbat.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 301:2. Magen Avraham 301:3 writes that it is even permitted initially.</ref> However, running in order to sweat is forbidden.<ref>Mishna Brurah 301:7 based on Shulchan Aruch 328:42</ref> | |||
# It is permitted to walk around on Shabbat for pleasure.<ref>Rama 301:2</ref> Even if one's intention is to walk for exercise it is permitted since it isn't clear that one is doing so for exercise, though some poskim are strict about this.<ref>Mishna Brurah 301:7</ref> | |||
==Swimming on Shabbat== | ==Swimming on Shabbat== | ||
# It is forbidden to swim on Shabbat in a river, ocean, or pool.<ref>The Mishna (Beitzah 36b) establishes that it is forbidden to swim on Shabbat. The gemara explains that it is a rabbinic gezerah so that on Shabbat a person doesn't make a raft that floats in the water. The Gemara Shabbat 40b clarifies that this only applies to swimming in a body of water without a lip. However, if there's an edge to the pool it is permitted. Rashi (41a s.v. de'eyt) explains that the lip makes it permitted since everyone will know that it isn't similar to a river and the gezerah wouldn't apply. The Rif (Shabbat 18b) differs in his explanation; he understood that reason a pool would look like a river is true when water splashes out of the pool, but if there's a lip that keeps the water in the pot there's no gezerah. The Shulchan Aruch 339:2 codifies the Mishna Beitzah and accepts the explanation of the Rif. Therefore, in terms of the gezerah not to swim on Shabbat it would apply to an ocean, river, or pool which doesn't have a lip that keeps the water in from splashing out. | # It is forbidden to swim on Shabbat in a river, ocean, or pool.<ref>The Mishna (Beitzah 36b) establishes that it is forbidden to swim on Shabbat. The gemara explains that it is a rabbinic gezerah so that on Shabbat a person doesn't make a raft that floats in the water. The Gemara Shabbat 40b clarifies that this only applies to swimming in a body of water without a lip. However, if there's an edge to the pool it is permitted. Rashi (41a s.v. de'eyt) explains that the lip makes it permitted since everyone will know that it isn't similar to a river and the gezerah wouldn't apply. The Rif (Shabbat 18b) differs in his explanation; he understood that reason a pool would look like a river is true when water splashes out of the pool, but if there's a lip that keeps the water in the pot there's no gezerah. The Shulchan Aruch 339:2 codifies the Mishna Beitzah and accepts the explanation of the Rif. Therefore, in terms of the gezerah not to swim on Shabbat it would apply to an ocean, river, or pool which doesn't have a lip that keeps the water in from splashing out. | ||
