Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

and forming them together into a snowball or a snowman is l'chor, a violation of bona.

Rabbi Eider points out it may also be mimareach, it may also be of the l'chor.

So yeah, it's for sure us who make a snowman on Shabbos.

One should not do that.

Okay, everyone should have a wonderful week and keep sending in these wonderful Shilas.

I'm learning so much from being able to look into them.

Okay, welcome back everybody to another week of Answering Your Shai Lizard.

Once again, we thank Rabbi Jonathan Cohn and do all of this.

Let's get right to it.

Question number one.

May one eat at a store that has no overall hashkacha?

if the specific item being eaten is individually certified, e.g.

This question for me is like...

It's what they call a layup.

The very first article I ever wrote, the very first major halachic topic that I ever researched in a significant way is brushing teeth on Shabbos.

I wrote an article more than 20 years ago.

probably close to 25 years ago in the Journal of Halachic and Contemporary Society on brushing teeth on Shabbos.

I've since translated that article into Hebrew and published it in my Hakona Olamo Chela Gimel on Shabbos.

But essentially, we'll try to keep it brief.

Essentially, there are several, many, many issues that come up with brushing teeth on Shabbos.