Rephael Cattan

  We are at the end of siman 29, and are discussing other points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam. Today, we will discuss separating pages of a book or sefer that are stuck together.   There are three possibilities as to how the pages got stuck together: The pages were never fully separated, such […]

We are at the end of siman 29, and are discussing tearing toilet paper on Shabbos. We began by discussing a few ways to employ a non-Jew. When a non-Jew is not available, we learned a Jew can perform an issur derabanan for the purpose of kavod habriyos, such as carrying toilet paper from a

  We are at the end of siman 29, and are discussing tearing toilet paper on Shabbos. We learned that tearing toilet paper would fall under the issur of korea (among other issurim), and applies both on the perforations and between the perforations. We learned that one can hint to a non-Jew. If the non-Jew

  We are at the end of siman 29, and will discuss a few points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam. Today, we will discuss tearing toilet paper on Shabbos.   The potential concerns of tearing toilet paper are makeh bepatish, because one is making the item usable; mechateich, because it is being cut to

We are at the end of siman 29, and will discuss a few points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam.  We began discussing bottle caps yesterday. Another type of cap is known as a flip-top cap, such as found on sports drinks, where a plastic connector is torn off to allow the cap to open

  We are at the end of siman 29, and will discuss a few points not mentioned by the Chayei Adam.   The issue of opening bottle caps on Shabbos is not really related to korea, but we will clarify it now nonetheless. One type of cap is the cap on a beer bottle, where