Ask the Rabbi
- Shabbat and Holidays
- Shabbat
- Eruv and Carrying
Question
You stated that it is forbidden for women to wear the red strings (the ones which are supposedly tied around kever rachel) on shabbat. Why?
Why is it not counted as jewellery or a bracelet?
Answer
Maybe since as apposed to a bracelet it’s not an adornment per se and not used to be worn as a piece of clothing, it doesn’t count as a Tachshit, and therefore is considered as carrying on Shabbat when there is no Eruv. (See Shmirat Shabbat Kehilchata p. 207, 212)

Taking from hallway into apartment on Shabbat
Rabbi David Sperling | Kislev 21, 5775

Walking on Shabbos
Various Rabbis | Nisan 18, 5768

Carrying Around my Coop Building on Shabbat
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 18 Elul 5764





