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Board game sorting on Saturday

ResponseCategory: HalachaBoard game sorting on Saturday
Pine asked 2 years ago

Have a good week Rabbi,
Is it permissible to arrange the components of board games on Shabbat in their designated place after the game is over? For example, if we say there are red and blue soldiers and during the game they get mixed up, is it permissible to sort them into their separate bags at the end of the game?
Best regards,

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Michi Staff answered 2 years ago

I don't think so. This is a selector. 

fire replied 2 years ago

What is the ruling if a person randomly takes one soldier after another in no order and returns them to their places? Is this permissible?

mikyab Staff replied 2 years ago

Some recent people wrote about cutlery, and if you take them one by one, you are allowed to place each one in your cell. I am a little skeptical about this permission, but there is someone to trust (because in any case, it is only the Rabbinical Arbiter. Especially when it comes to big and obvious things).

Kobe replied 2 years ago

I remember that the permit is made with two people. Then it makes sense that one randomly issues and the other assumes. It's not an arbitrary act towards any person, although perhaps one should look at the situation as a whole?
In one person there is a real change in the anthropology.

The same thing can also be spread out at a distance from each other until there is no mixture on the spread. And the other will sort it out.
But as

mikyab Staff replied 2 years ago

It's two things that she did, like this one uproots and this one puts down.

fire replied 2 years ago

Why does it only select from rabbinic sources and not from Torah? (Because it is a work that does not need a body?)

mikyab Staff replied 2 years ago

Because it's not done in a vessel and here we are separating food from food. And there are opinions that this is only the case with ground crops. It goes beyond the fact that it involves large, noticeable pieces. This whole story is quite dubious, but it's acceptable to be serious about it.

Michi Staff replied 8 hours ago

Cheers.

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