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From: Agudah <info@agudahil.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2025, 4:05 PM
Subject: What's New This Week
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TUES, JAN 7, 2025 | 7 TEVES 5785

This newsletter contains flyers and information about the following topics:

Halacha and Torah

The halachos of Asara B'Teves on a Friday

The halachos of proper disposal of Chanukah items

Family and Children

Pesach is Coming! See below for unique opportunity!

Pirchei Mishnas Shabbos shiurim information

Bnos will be having an additional two weeks of Motzei Shabbos gym!

Bnos Call-a-Bubby program is back!

Q: I borrowed a book from the library with words stamped along the side of it. When the book is closed the words are legible but when you open it they can no longer be read. Would opening and closing such a book on Shabbos be an issue of כותב (writing) and מוחק (erasing)?

A: Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Agishtein responds:

The best thing to do is to place a bookmark or a tissue between the pages so that the words are already broken up before Shabbos. If one forgets to do this before Shabbos, then if one has another copy of the same book, it would be preferable to avoid using it.

If none of the above apply then one can be lenient and use the book for two reasons:

Everything was already written, opening and closing the book is merely an act of distancing and bringing the existing print together.
The writing is not being erased every time the book is opened, it is merely switching back and forth between two states, similar to why opening and closing a door is not considered building and dismantling.

(משנה ברורה ס׳ שמ׳ סע׳ יז׳)