- Shabbat and Holidays
- Computers, Internet and Cellphones
Downloading over Shabbat
Various Rabbis
16 Av 5764
Question
May one leave one’s computer on over the weekend with the knowledge that an email will definitely be sent on Shabbat. What about if one is downloading a large file which started on Friday but will almost inevitably carry on downloading over the Shabbat?
Answer
There are two problems:
1. Is there any Chilul Shabbat done throughout the process: Was the source ready before Shabbat? Do the communication companies not work on Shabbat?
2. The use of automation on Shabbat. Rav Moshe Feinstein's opinion is that it can cause a breach in the Shabbat system. We use automation on Shabbat only where there is a great need, or things we were used to before there was automation, by assistance of Goyim etc. Anything new would need to be studied and cheked if it won't be a precedent to things we will be sorry of later.
Rabbi Ya'akov Ariel
Video-cameras on Shabes and Yom Tov
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tammuz 6, 5773
Web site and Cellular phone on Shabbat
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 17 Adar II 5763
Sweepstakes on Shabbat
Rabbi David Sperling | Iyyar 5, 5774
Internet streaming Shabbat services
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tevet 4, 5780
Various Rabbis
Various Rabbis including those of of Yeshivat Bet El, such as Rabbi Chaim Katz, Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger and Rabbi Yitzchak Greenblat and others.
Kissing a Mezuzah or Sefer
3 Tishrei 5763
What is happening to me?
4 Cheshvan 5763
Non-Kosher wine for cooking
7 Kislev 5763
’Assimilated Jew’
1 Kislev 5763
Eating in Shiurim
Rabbi David Sperling | Tishrei 7, 5775
Mosquito netting on top of Succah
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 10 Tishrei 5767
Death on the Holiday
Rabbi Elchanan Lewis | 8 Tishrei 5765
Keeping 1 or 2 days Yom Tov in Israel
Rabbi Jonathan Blass | 23 Nisan 5766
Original Passover Meal
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Tishrei 3, 5784
