Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

So let's first take the headlines and sports scores off the table a little bit.

Meaning, if it's putting live headlines and sports scores, you're probably not allowed to read such things on Shabbos.

The Shulchan Aruch says you're not allowed to read captions under pictures and things like that.

So probably there's some level of a gzerimish m'kosev and of the d'chol and other things relating to headlines and sports scores that flash across Shabbos.

screen to be reading such things probably probably but let's just talk about the digital frames themselves because it's not only popular in homes it has become increasingly popular in schools that they have a display a digital display in

In my shul, in the actual sanctuary, in the front of the shul, we have two digital displays.

Now, typically, they don't change very much, other than, like, on the bottom line, it says, and then it will say, that will flash away, and at some point then we'll say, or whatever.

You know, on the bottom of the screen and the rest of the screen stays pretty consistent with that day's and that week's Zmanim until somebody changes it.

And that's all it has.

But a lot of shuls have display boards in the lobby where it will have flyers of upcoming events in the shul that go across the screen, come on and off the screen over the course of Shabbos.

So it's homes, it's shuls.

In fact, I was just in Brooklyn this past Shabbos at the shul of one of the great shuls.

G-d in America today, Rav Yisrael Reisman, and in his shul, they have such a scream in the lobby.

It didn't change very much, but it did change a little bit.

You know, rotated the flyer of my presence in the shul, you know, my Shabbos in the shul, with other flyers of other things.

So the question is, is there any problem with this?

So again, leaving out the sports scores in the news, just having...

Having that.

So having a screen that flashes pictures and fires and things like that.

I once wrote an article about coffee machines running on Shabbos, meaning if you set up your coffee machine to cook your coffee on Shabbos morning and you set it all up before Shabbos, is there any problem with that?