Template:Stroller Hood on Shabbat
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- Some poskim, including Rav Moshe Feinstein,[1] hold that the hood needs to be opened one Tefach (approx. 3.75 inches) prior to Shabbos. However, other Poskim, including Chazon Ish,[2] permitted it no matter what, claiming that there is no issue of Assiyas Ohel (making a covering) since it is all attached from before Shabbos.
- A normal umbrella that is attached to a stroller may not be opened on Shabbat. This is true even for the lenient opinion who permits opening a stroller hood.[3]
- 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).[4] 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.[5]
- It is permitted to add a rain cover on Shabbat even if the hood was opened on Shabbat.[6]
- If there is a stroller hood which was open a tefach, it is permitted to open it further on Shabbat.[7]
- ↑ Igros Moshe O.C. 4:105:3, Or Letzion 2:28:1
- ↑ Chazon Ish O.C. 52:6, Rav Elyashiv (Ashrei Haish 2:20:5), Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 24:13, Orchot Shabbat 9:28, Be'er Moshe 6:87. Rav Schachter (Highlights of Melachos Shabbat Part 2, min 61) noted this dispute between the Chazon Ish and Rav Moshe and seemed to prefer the Chazon Ish. Chazon Ish OC 52:6 holds that it is permitted to open and close the roof of a baby carriage and it isn't considered like creating an ohel to protect from the sun. His reasoning is that it since it is attached to the carriage opening it is like extending a preexisting ohel. Also, it is like opening and closing a door which is built to do that. See Rama 626:3 regarding opening and closing a shlock for the sukkah and Mishna Brurah 315:27 regarding shtenders. In that piece Chazon Ish is disagreeing with the Nodeh Beyehuda OC 2:30 regarding umbrellas. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 24:13 agrees and is lenient. Rav Ovadia Yosef in Chazon Ovadia (Shabbat v. 5 p. 302) writes that one should be strict for the Nodeh Beyehuda unlike Chazon Ish. Yalkut Yosef 315:12 quotes those who are strict and concludes that it is proper to leave it a tefach (excluding the folded part) open before Shabbat and extend it or fold it up on Shabbat.
- ↑ Rav Elyashiv (Ashrei Haish 2:20:5)
- ↑ Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata 24:13, Orchot Shabbat 9:28
- ↑ Orchot Shabbat 9:29
- ↑ 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 benefit from a transgression of Shabbat to extend that covering.
- ↑ Shulchan Aruch O.C. 315:2. Or Letzion 2:28:1 applies Shulchan Aruch to a stroller hood.
