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Rav Shlomo Zalman (Meor Hasshabbat Letter 2:2) defines it as follows: if you do something during the week that would be assur on Shabbat, and then on Shabbat you do the same actions with the same objects but just a modify the action slightly in order to get around the melacha concerns, this would still be prohibited due to uvdin d'chol. <p class="indent">Rav Moshe (Iggerot Moshe 4:74, tochein 4) defines it as something that is an easily recognizable weekday activity, and it doesn't appear like you are doing it in a more haphazard way - שהמלאכה נעשית על ידי זה טובה כמלאכה קבועה דעושין בחול ולא ניכר עניין עשיית עראי שנעשית בלא קפידא כל כך על המלאכה שתעשה יפה.</p><p class="indent">Mishna Brurah (314:41) says that to chop up wood into big pieces would be uvdin d'chol. The Mishnah Berurah in 321:36 he explains that the reason why the Shulchan Aruch (321:10) prohibits using a grinder to grind cheese is because of uvdin dichol. The Mishnah Berurah in 321:45 says that using a vegetable grinder to grind up onions would violate uvdin d'chol (besides for tochein). He also says in (303:87) that you can't use a comb even to lightly brush your hair to one side, but instead should get a special brush for Shabbat with soft bristles , so as not to violate uvdin dichol.</p></ref> </p> | Rav Shlomo Zalman (Meor Hasshabbat Letter 2:2) defines it as follows: if you do something during the week that would be assur on Shabbat, and then on Shabbat you do the same actions with the same objects but just a modify the action slightly in order to get around the melacha concerns, this would still be prohibited due to uvdin d'chol. <p class="indent">Rav Moshe (Iggerot Moshe 4:74, tochein 4) defines it as something that is an easily recognizable weekday activity, and it doesn't appear like you are doing it in a more haphazard way - שהמלאכה נעשית על ידי זה טובה כמלאכה קבועה דעושין בחול ולא ניכר עניין עשיית עראי שנעשית בלא קפידא כל כך על המלאכה שתעשה יפה.</p><p class="indent">Mishna Brurah (314:41) says that to chop up wood into big pieces would be uvdin d'chol. The Mishnah Berurah in 321:36 he explains that the reason why the Shulchan Aruch (321:10) prohibits using a grinder to grind cheese is because of uvdin dichol. The Mishnah Berurah in 321:45 says that using a vegetable grinder to grind up onions would violate uvdin d'chol (besides for tochein). He also says in (303:87) that you can't use a comb even to lightly brush your hair to one side, but instead should get a special brush for Shabbat with soft bristles , so as not to violate uvdin dichol.</p></ref> </p> | ||
# | # Rav Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss and Rav Ovadya say that this would be a problem unless a special toothbrush is used.<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 3:50. Yalkut Yosef 326:15. | ||
Seemingly, they are using a different definition of uvdin d'chol than Rav Shlomo Zalman and Rav Moshe, because for RSZ and Rav Moshe there is no way to violate uvdin d'chol on an action that's permissible during the week.</ref> | Seemingly, they are using a different definition of uvdin d'chol than Rav Shlomo Zalman and Rav Moshe, because for RSZ and Rav Moshe there is no way to violate uvdin d'chol on an action that's permissible during the week.</ref> | ||
# Rav Schachter thinks there’s no problem of uvdin dichol with using the same toothbrush as during the week.<ref> Quoted by [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/752802/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Brushing_Teeth_on_Shabbos Rabbi Lebowitz], using the rule that the Chazon Ish said that the parameters of uvdin dichol are defined by the poskim of each generation (39 melachos, Introduction to [[Shabbos]] endnote 522). </ref> | # Rav Schachter thinks there’s no problem of uvdin dichol with using the same toothbrush as during the week.<ref> Quoted by [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/752802/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Brushing_Teeth_on_Shabbos Rabbi Lebowitz], using the rule that the Chazon Ish said that the parameters of uvdin dichol are defined by the poskim of each generation (39 melachos, Introduction to [[Shabbos]] endnote 522). </ref> | ||
===Chavalah=== | ===Chavalah=== | ||
Brushing your teeth can cause the gums to bleed which is | Brushing your teeth can cause the gums to bleed, thereby violating the tolda known as chavala (lit: bruising), which according to most rishonim is under the melacha of [[shochet]].<ref> Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 316:8, Mishna Brurah ibid s.k. 30. Mishna Brurah 328:147; 39 Melochos, p. 893-94. </ref> | ||
# Rav Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss thinks this is a concern with toothbrushes, especially ones with hard bristles.<ref> Minchat Yitzchak 3:50 </ref> | |||
# Rav Ovadia says this isn’t really a problem because people usually don’t bleed.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 326:15. Since it is not certain that bleeding will result from brushing your teeth, if you do end up bleeding this is considered a davar she’eno mitkaven, meaning it is an undesired consequence that was not a guarantee, and so is completely mutar. </ref> | |||
===[[Hachanah]]=== | ===[[Hachanah]]=== | ||
