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Sea on Saturday

ResponseCategory: HalachaSea on Saturday
RTK asked 2 months ago

I wanted to ask if it is permissible to bathe in the sea on Shabbat?
I saw that there are many opinions about this and I would like to know what the Rabbi thinks about it.
Thank you very much. 

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Michi Staff answered 2 months ago

As long as your feet touch the ground, it is permissible according to the law. But you have to wipe the water off when you get to dry land so as not to shake it off the Carmelite. And in wiping there is a fear of squeezing. And some even claim that this involves the practice of devout worship (which I do not know how to define). And they did not do so at all. Therefore, I would avoid it.

Acre is in the soul replied 2 months ago

Maybe they didn't because there is no sea in Bnei Brak, Yeruham, and Lod.

But to say the soul of every living being on Shabbat in Acre at sea (separate of course) from experience is truly terrifying, bordering on frightening at the idea.

So maybe that counts as a good practice?

Narli is permitted and commanded.
Because Saturday is Nutricon
Enjoy a Saturday at sea

H replied 2 months ago

What about a privately owned pool?

Michi Staff replied 2 months ago

Implement my answer above.

Pine replied 1 week ago

Regarding shaking water in Carmel and the obligation to wipe, I received a comment from chatgpt:

Shulchan Aruch (O"C Sha"A SB) rules that the things on a person's body are void to him and are not defined as a separate object.

The Mishnah Berurah there (Skyga) explains that this is similar to mud on feet or dust on clothes—they are a nuisance to a person and do not "shake" them on their own.

As long as the water is naturally on the skin (attached after bathing), it is part of your body for the purposes of this law.

Michi Staff replied 1 week ago

Oren, you are a bigger AI expert than me, and you are probably familiar with the phenomenon of hallucinations. It turns out that it also exists in Giphy 5.

Pine replied 1 week ago

In defense of the AI, I used the regular 5 model and not 5 thinking. But in any case, the explanations sound correct to me. And I also thought that it was no different from rain, where water droplets also stick to the body and you shake them, and no one has forbidden such shaking. In other words, I ask why it would be forbidden to shake seawater that has stuck to the body in light of the AI's explanations and the comparison to rain.

Michi Staff replied 1 week ago

There is a difference between drops on the body and water that you want to remove/wipe off. If the former is perhaps useless, the latter is not.

Michi Staff replied 1 week ago

By the way, is thinking less delusional or just thinking better?

Pine replied 1 week ago

Both in my unfounded opinion.

Regarding drops on the body, even in the case of heavy rain I have to wipe myself off. Furthermore, if there was a problem with shaking off water that was tested on the body in the sea on Shabbat, entry into the sea should have been completely prohibited because there is no way you can avoid shaking off the water because you can't shake a towel for the purpose of wiping.

Michi Staff replied 1 week ago

Whatever you want to wipe is not invalid in my opinion. And of course, if there is a problem with the towel, then it is not allowed.

Pine replied 1 week ago

So according to this, someone who gets very wet in heavy rain and wants to dry off due to the excessive wetness, should stand in place?

Michi Staff replied 1 week ago

In principle, yes. One should discuss the one who is busy and does not intend to.

Pine replied 1 week ago

By the way, in an old responsa you wrote differently:

Excellent question. There is a difference (beyond the amount of water, which is also different) that in the water I bring the water up on me and in the rain it happens to me from outside. But I really don't see a reason for the difference.

These are exactly two explanations that I have given. And yet, there is no difference in explanation. If he is in the Rabbinical Council that the prohibition is from the Lord, will we also permit him there because there is no choice? Let him stand his ground, there is no advice and no wisdom against God. And taking water from the river or the river is also not acceptable. These explanations are extremely weak.

See this link:
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9C-%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%AA/

Michi Staff replied 1 week ago

I didn't see anything different there.

Pine replied 1 week ago

I thought about this matter again, and it reminded me of what you said about yeshiva heads who have no connection with homeowners who can tell them that a certain ruling of theirs is not common sense (unlike yeshiva students). Here too, it seems to me that it is impossible for someone who gets very wet in the rain and continues to walk despite it to commit some offense or perform some work on Shabbat. It simply goes against common sense. It is possible that when you analyze the sources and try to compare word for word, this is what comes out, but the end result seems very strange to me.

Michi Staff replied 1 week ago

It is possible. And yet such a feeling can be a motivation to seek a halakhic explanation. In order to permit, one must find a halakhic explanation. You could perhaps say that as long as I am in a brahmin and I do not have the option to wipe the liquid off me, it is void. Or that the rain fell on me and there is no displacement here but at most an assumption, unlike rainwater. What's more, these are liquids that I am not interested in.

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