The Daily Halacha Moment - Crushing On Shabbat 🥠
״כל השונה הלכות בכל יום - מובטח לו שהוא בן העולם הבא״ (נידה עג ע״א, מגילה כח:)
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Question:
May one crush something that has been previously crushed on Shabbat?
Answer:
Tochen does not apply to an item that has been previously ground. Therefore, an item that has been completely ground and subsequently becomes bound into a united mass may be broken apart and crushed once again.[1] Examples of such items include:
a. Crushing a cookie, matzah, or cake into crumbs.[2]
b. Crushing a tablet of medicine into a powder.[3]
c. Crushing a sugar cube or clumps of loose sugar. [4]
d. Crushing a clump of smelling tobacco.[5]
e. Some state that it is permitted to crush a block a chocolate.[6]
Even when crushing an item that is permitted to be crushed because it was previously crushed, one may not use an instrument that is specifically used for grinding or crushing.[7]
Excerpted from R’ Yonatan Nacson’s ‘Laws of Shabbat’, vol. 1 p. 376-377
Sources:
[1]. Rama 321:8 and 12; Ben Ish Chai, Mishpatim 2:1; Chazon Ovadia, Shabbat, vol. 4, pp. 251-252.
[2]. Rama 321:8
[3]. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchatah 33:4; Rivevot Ephraim, vol. 5, 260:3; Orchot Shabbat 5:22.
[4]. Rama 321:8; Mishnah Berurah 321:30; Kaf HaChaim 321:50.
[5]. Ben Ish Chai, Mishpatim 2:7; Kaf HaChaim 321:69; Halichot Olam, vol. 4, p. 127.
[6]. Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchatah 6:11; Hilchot Shabbat b’Shabbat 12:8. See also Orchot Shabbat 5:21, footnote 40.
[7]. Mishnah Berurah 321:30; Biur Halachah 321:12, “Lefarer”; Chazon Ovadia, Shabbat, vol. 4, end of p. 251.
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