Shabbat: C (part 2) - Children, Clothing

Richard B. Aiken

CHILDREN

Melacha

You may not have any child, even if younger than gil chinuch, do melacha for you on Shabbat.

Ball Playing in Yard or Eruv

If a private yard is enclosed, playing ball is not forbidden. Within a city eruv, do not play ball.

Retrieving Ball

You may retrieve a ball or other item that has fallen into a bush on Shabbat, but only if you can get it without moving the bush and only if the ball is still within an eruv or the private domain from which it fell.

Snowballs

You may make snowballs on Shabbat for purposes of playing.

Card Playing

Playing cards is not forbidden on Shabbat as long as you do not gamble or do melacha. You may sort a deck of cards into suits, but you must not remove unwanted cards (such as Jokers) from the deck, due to boreir.

Stickers

Children may apply or remove stickers used for decoration or “jewelry” if the stickers will last less than 24 hours.

CLOTHING

Extra Shirt Buttons on Shabbat

You may wear extra shirt buttons, sewn on to be used in the future if buttons fall off the shirt, outside an eruv on Shabbat, but not if you are already missing a button from your shirt and you plan to use one of those buttons in the future.

Folding Clothes on a Crease on Shabbat

Don't fold clothes (including a talit) on an existing crease on Shabbat.

NOTE: You may fold clothes on a new crease that was not there before you did the folding, but only if there is already an existing crease in the garment.

NOTE: If there is not a crease from before you fold the garment, you may not make one.

Non-Embedded Dirt on Shabbat

You may brush off non-embedded dirt or hair from the surface of clothing, on Shabbat.

You may not remove dust, burrs, or anything that penetrates the surface of the garment, on Shabbat.

Shabbat: Removing Tag from Clothing

You may not cut a tag off clothes on Shabbat.

Introduction to Coloring (Tzovei'a)

Since wool and/or leather was dyed for the Tabernacle in the desert, similar actions are forbidden today on Shabbat. Any action that causes one item or substance to change its color may be forbidden, even if it is not related to dyeing wool and/or leather.

Coloring (Tzovei'a): Food

You may not add a substance, whether food or other, in order to color food on Shabbat. You may add food to other food even if it will cause the other food to become colored as long as that is not your intention.

Coloring (Tzovei'a): Cloth

You may wipe a stain off of your face or hands onto a cloth or piece of paper if you do it to clean your face or hands on Shabbat, but not if you want to color the cloth or paper.

COURIERS

Ordering Shipment that Arrives on Shabbat

You may not order a shipment—such as Fedex or other express delivery service--to arrive on Shabbat, but you may tell the shipper that it is OK with you if it is delivered Saturday night, as long as it can be delivered without violating Shabbat.  For details about newspapers and other reading material delivered on Shabbat, see Shabbat: Mail and Periodicals.

CUT FLOWERS

Putting Cut Flowers in Water

You may not put cut flowers into a vase or other utensil (with water in it) on Shabbat.

Adding Water to Cut Flowers

You may not add water to cut flowers in a utensil on Shabbat.

Moving Cut Flowers

You may move cut flowers in a vase or other utensil on Shabbat if they were in the vase or utensil since before Shabbat started, but if there are still some unopened buds on the stems, you may not put the cut flowers into direct sunlight.

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