Template:Stroller Hood on Shabbat: Difference between revisions

# Once the hood is open it is permitted to add a temporary additional roof, such as a rain cover or a blanket. One should start to add to that roof from the side which is already covered (by the hood).<ref>Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 24:13, Orchot Shabbat 9:28</ref> There is a question whether it is permitted to add the raincover or blanket if they're not at the same height as the hood. When they're at the same height they are permitted since they extend the original ohel. If it is more than 3 tefachim away, either vertically or laterally, it is certainly forbidden to add the rain cover or blanket.<ref>Orchot Shabbat 9:29</ref>  

## It is permitted to add a rain cover on Shabbat even if the hood was opened on Shabbat.<ref>Rav Eliyahu Pesach Polek in Piyha Pitcha Bchochma v. 2 p. 85 writes that it is permitted to add a rain cover to a covering that is open 1 tefach even if that opening was opened on Shabbat. He says that in fact that it seems that it should be permitted to add the rain cover even if the hood was forbidden to open since it isn't considered a direct [[Benefiting_from_a_Violation_of_Shabbat| benefit from a transgression of Shabbat]] to extend that covering.</ref>