Q&A: Cutting Spider Webs on the Sabbath
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Cutting Spider Webs on the Sabbath
Question
Is it permitted to cut spider webs, since on the Sabbath the spider and the webs are muktzeh, and only when this is extremely disgusting is it permitted to remove them under the rule of a chamber pot.
Answer
Are you asking from the standpoint of a labor prohibition? If so, what does that have to do with the law of muktzeh?
Why do you want to cut them? The reason is important for the law of an act whose result is not needed for its own sake (as with trapping a snake) and the like.