
May one read a Torah book on Shabbos for the purpose of writing about it after Shabbos, as is common with Chidushei Torah, or homework of Limudei Kodesh?
Some Poskim[1] rule that doing so is permitted[2]. However other Poskim[3] have written that one is to refrain from doing so.
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[1] Kinyan Torah 2:115; Az Nidbaru 7:8; Piskeiy Teshuvos 307:1
[2] As a) It is not recognizable that one is doing so for the purpose of writing it down. b) In any event one is also doing it for the purpose of learning it now. [Az Nidbaru ibid]; and c) It is for the purpose of a Mitzvah. [Kinyan Torah ibid]
[3] Ashel Avraham Butshach 306 writes that one is to refrain from thinking of writing Chidushei Torah on Shabbos; Minchas Shabbos 90:9 learns to say that it is forbidden to look up a Torah subject on Shabbos if one plans to write it down.
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