1. Over the next few weeks, we will be discussing some of the halachot of tzad, the melachah of trapping animals on Shabbat. We will discuss which cases of tzad are included in the Torah melachah, which cases are forbidden by Rabbinic law, and which cases are permitted.

2. The Torah melachah of tzad is transgressed only when one traps an animal with all of the following three conditions:

a. The animal is one that is normally trapped by people for use or consumption

b. The animal can be grabbed in one motion after it is trapped

c. The animal was not previously trapped to some degree before one trapped it

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Dedicated by Fran Broder as a zechus for everlasting peace in Eretz Yisrael in the merit of learning Hilchos Shabbos.