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May I do laundry on Friday afternoon:
It is permitted in a time of need to do laundry Friday afternoon, as turning on the machine is considered a minor labor. However, initially, this should be done on Thursday, and by the very latest, on Friday before Mincha Ketana. Past Mincha Ketana, one may only turn on the machine, and should not hang or fold the laundry being that it is laborious activity.
Background:
It is forbidden to do Melacha on Friday afternoon, starting from Mincha Ketana, which is 2.5 Halachic fluctuating hours prior to sunset on Erev Shabbos unless the work being done is not real labor. Turning on the machine is not real labor, and is hence permitted even past Mincha Ketana.
Sources: See Admur 251:1 and 3; Ateres Paz 6; Kol Menachem 251
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May one on Shabbos wash his hands using tab water that is warm due to the sun? There is no cold water coming out of the tab as even the cold water has become warm.
Yes, as the water was heated on its own without any human action. There is no cooking prohibition being that the water is not Yad Soledes [and even if it was, it would be Chama, or Toldos Chama]. It is not necessary to wait for the water to flow until cold water comes out, although one who does so is certainly doing an act of piety due to the prohibition against bathing in water heated on Shabbos even Biheter.
Sources: See Admur 326:4; Supplement from Mahadurah Basra chapter 259 Page 884 in the new Shulchan Aruch; M”B 326:17; Hagahos Rav Akiva Eiger on 326; Tehila Ledavid 326:3; Igros Moshe 1:126; Shevet Halevi 1:58; 3:33; SSH”K 14 footnote 17; Shabbos Kehalacha 18:34 Biurim 5; Piskeiy Teshuvos 326 footnote 36
May one recite Shehechiyanu on grafted fruits and hybrid vegetables?[1]
This matter is debated amongst the Poskim, and practically the blessing should not be recited if one knows for certain that a Kilayim prohibition took place with that particular tree from which one is eating the fruit. However, according to all one may recite the blessing over a species of hybrid fruit if the fruit was grown from a seed of the hybrid fruit and not from direct Kilayim.
[1] See Halachos Ketanos 1:60 [Assur]; Sheilas Yavetz 63 [Mutar] Beir Heiytiv 225; Biur Halacha 225 “Peri”; Rav Poalim 1:26; Kaf Hachaim 225:26; Yabia Omer 5:19; Igros Moshe 2:58; Minchas Yitzchak 3:25; Beir Moshe 7:220; Halichos Shlomo 23:18; Or Letziyon 2:14 – 45; Shraga Hameir 4:93; Piskeiy Teshuvos 225:14
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