D'var Halacha

    We are continuing siman 3. Yesterday, we learned some of the concepts of this siman, and today we will read them inside. The Chayei Adam writes that the list of melachos discussed previously (siman 1) are avos. Other actions which are parallel to them are toldos. Whether a person transgresses an av or […]

  We are beginning siman 3, where the Chayei Adam discusses the concept of avos and toldos. The Torah tells us that we cannot do melacha on Shabbos, and also writes, right afterwards, that we cannot build the Mishkan on Shabbos. Thus. Chazal conclude that the melachos involved in making the mishkan are those prohibited

We are continuing in siman 2, where the Chayei Adam is discussing melachos performed with a shinui or ki’lachar yad. We left off discussing the definition of shinui, and learned that the result must be less than optimal, or even if the result is the same, the performance of the action is in some way

  We are continuing in siman 2, where the Chayei Adam is discussing melachos performed with a shinui or ki’lachar yad. We learned that the concept of shinui is part of the concept of meleches machsheves. In general, the principle by shinui and ki’lachar yad is that even if one is not chayav mideoraysa, it

We are continuing in siman 2, where the Chayei Adam is discussing melachos performed with a shinui. We left off learning that a melacha performed in a not-normal fashion is not chayav. The Chayei Adam gives some examples: Digging a hole, which is the melacha of choreish, is not chayav mideoraysa until one uses a