Refrigerator on Saturday

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asked 6 years ago

Is it permissible to open/close a refrigerator on Shabbat, if the light turns on/off? Does it matter if there is already light in the room, and then I don’t enjoy the light from the refrigerator? Will it help if I close my eyes, so that I don’t enjoy it?

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

The prohibition on lighting a light does not depend on whether you enjoy it. You are confusing this prohibition with the prohibition of a Shabbat act. When someone lights a candle in a room, if there is a light in another room, you can be there, since you are not enjoying the light that was lit on Shabbat. But when there is a light in a room, this does not mean that it is permissible to light a candle there. Lighting the candle is a malakha prohibition, and the act itself is prohibited regardless of your enjoyment of it.

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אלי replied 6 years ago

I meant that if I do not enjoy the light, and I have no benefit from it, and I also do not intend to turn on the light, then it does not mean, and it is indeed a Risha's renunciation, but it is not acceptable.

מיכי Staff replied 6 years ago

The phrase "not for him" is forbidden (perhaps from the rabbis) for most systems. According to this addition from the Shatzal, and for the other Rishonim there is no "not for him" clause at all.

מני replied 4 years ago

What does the Rabbi think about the HaRashcha’s opinion that turning on the light is forbidden because one intends to do so even when one does not desire it, because this is the normal and normal operation of the device?

מיכי Staff replied 4 years ago

I didn't know. On the surface, it sounds strange to me. At most, it will get us into a Risha comma, but what does this have to do with Nichuta? Even dragging a bench on soft ground properly creates a groove.