This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 3. Making salt water on Shabbos:[1] A. For pickling foods:[2] It is forbidden to make heavy salt water [on Shabbos] or other heavily salted liquids[3] in order to place [these liquids] into pickled foods, meaning [to place them in] […]
Engraved Writings
Reading engraved writings:[1] Reading writing engraved on a board or pad: Even if the names [of the guests] are engraved on a board or pad and are not written, it is forbidden to be read, as perhaps they will mistakenly come to allow [reading] even laymen documents, as the board […]
2. The Rabbinical prohibition- Salting foods
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here 2. The Rabbinical prohibition- Salting foods: For a general summary see 2D! Although Biblically the prohibition of tanning does not apply to foods, nevertheless Rabbinically the prohibition of tanning applies food.[1] A. Salting raw meat [which is edible by […]
Guest list
Reading the guest list for one’s meal: The letter of the law:[1] Based on the above, one who invited guests and prepared for them delicacies and wrote before Shabbos the names of the guests which were invited so he not forget to call them on Shabbos, or he wrote the […]
1. The Biblical prohibition- Tanning and salting skins
This article is an excerpt from To purchase this Sefer, click here Introduction: The following chapter will deal with the laws of salting foods and items on Shabbos. Salting skins contains a prohibition of tanning. As an offshoot of this prohibition, some hold it was decreed as well not to pickle […]
Non-business related
Reading non-business related writings:[1] [In addition to the above decree against business documents] they decreed against reading any type of writing, even if it does not contain matters which are forbidden [to do on Shabbos]. Even to read it without verbalizing is forbidden. The reason for this is: due to […]
Introduction
The following chapter will deal with the laws of salting foods and items on Shabbos. Salting skins contains a prohibition of tanning. As an offshoot of this prohibition, some hold it was decreed as well not to pickle and salt food in certain ways. Others however hold that the decree […]
Business documents
Reading business documents and contracts:[1] Laymen documents, such as loan, business, collateral, and accounting documents, and the like of matters which are forbidden to be done on Shabbos, are forbidden to be read on Shabbos due to the decree of “Mimtzoe Cheftzecha”. Reading them in ones thought without verbalizing: Furthermore […]
Detached Vegetables
Watering detached vegetables:[1] Edible vegetables: It is permitted to water detached vegetables in order to prevent them from shriveling, as since these vegetables are fit to be eaten on Shabbos it is therefore allowed to water them just as it is [similarly] allowed to move them. Inedible vegetables: However if […]
Placing Flowers and plants in water on Shabbos
Placing flowers and plants into water on Shabbos:[1] Branches [and flowers] which have been designated before Shabbos for a specific use in a way that they are no longer considered Muktzah[2], may be entered into a bucket or vase of water on Shabbos[3], if the water was placed into the […]
