Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Today's topic, today's Semen Halacha, we're going to talk about blowing bubbles on Shabbos. The kids do that here in camp over Shabbos? Do you see like little kids like that? I don't know, but I've seen it. So you know what I'm talking about, blowing bubbles, right? So they take soapy water and they blow out of the wand and nice, right? Everyone knows what I'm talking about, right? Give me a nod.
Okay, good. So is there any issue of blowing bubbles on Shabbos? So there are three potential issues that I could think of. And let's go one by one. So one potential issue is that you might be watering the grass, because as you blow the bubbles and they land on the grass, then you're watering the grass on Shabbos. So you could easily solve that problem by not blowing near the grass, right?
And that would obviously solve that problem. Even if you do blow near the grass, the amount that lands on the grass is so, so minuscule. There is a din of Chatzishir, this isn't even that, this is just like, it just pops on the grass. It's hard to imagine, unless you're spilling it on the grass, that it's really considered to be even a of water that's affecting the grass.
Chapter 2: Is there any issue with blowing bubbles on Shabbos?
But OK, ,, better to blow not on the grass. So let's assume you're not on the grass. You're on the pavement. You're on the road. And your bubbles are going to land on the pavement. So the second issue, probably the biggest issue to discuss, is that of molid. There's an offshoot of called . Something comes into the world that didn't exist before Yom Tov.
So that's an offshoot of, it's not just an offshoot of Muxa, it's probably the most severe form of Muxa.
Chapter 3: What are the potential issues with blowing bubbles on grass?
Not only something that was not designated before Shabbos or Yom Tov to be used, but something that didn't even exist before Shabbos and Yom Tov, then came into the world on Shabbos and Yom Tov. Now, bubbles are, even if they're considered nolad, you really don't do anything with them. So the muxa status is irrelevant. Because if something is muxa, you just watch them.
So, okay, I won't touch, I won't catch them. You don't do anything with them. There's no ashtamshas, there's no tiltal. So it seems to me the muxa status is irrelevant. So nolad is not really the issue. The issue is molid. Molid is an offshoot of the malacha of bona, that you're not allowed to build something, so you're also not allowed to change the form of something or to reformat something.
Or maybe it's not an offshoot of bona, but it's just what Rashi calls domel the malacha. Is it any malacha? No, but it looks like a creative activity because you're taking something that was a certain way. and you're turning it into something else. What's the source that there's such a concept that if you change the form of something, you turn it into something else, that that would be Yasser?
It's a Gemara in Shabbos Tafnun Aleph. The Gemara says, E meraskin lo'as ha'sheleg ve'lo'as habar b'shabas b'shvil she'ezovu meymat. You're not supposed to squeeze snow and cause water to drip out, or ice, and cause water to drip out on Shabbos.
But if you want to put an ice cube in your drink, that's fine, and then it will just slowly melt into your drink and it won't be a noticeable thing, and that's perfectly fine. So Rashi over there says, what's the problem in squeezing snow or ice? For California kids, we'll explain to you what snow is later. So what's the problem of squeezing snow?
snow or ice, so says Rashi, that it's similar to a malacha, in that you're creating water, so you're not really doing malacha, but it's similar to a malacha, because the ice melts on its own, but when the ice melts on its own, you're not doing anything at all, and then it's not doma la malacha, that's why the Gemara says you can put an ice cube into your drink,
And you don't have to worry about it because you're not actually doing anything. The Rambam in Hilch HaShabbos Parach HaVal V'Lach Yigimel actually understands Zechariah differently.
He says the reason you're not allowed to squeeze ice or snow is that it's also Mishom Schita, that it's an offshoot of Schita, which itself is an offshoot of Dosh, that you're squeezing liquid out of that which is a solid. Now, if Kamini B'tun Rashi and the Rambam is are you allowed to change the form of something? Can you take something
that's in one form, and repurpose it, or reconstitute it, and make it into a different form. So the Mishaburu in Simshin Chaf, Sivkat and Lamed Gimel, says, explaining the Pesach in the Shulchan Aruch, that you're not allowed to squeeze ice, the Mishaburu writes, that it's like a Malacha, you're creating this water, and therefore it's meaning, and then he says,
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Chapter 4: How does the concept of molid apply to blowing bubbles?
And that's not really such a big change of form. Ramos writes, You can water down your liquid soap, make it more watery, and then it won't be a problem with holidays. So Tzosa Shulchan, Chaim Noam makes this exact distinction when it comes to toothpaste. It seems to be an even greater change, right?
And he says still it's probably mutter, it's not the same as soap, as a bar of soap, because it's not really such a change to change from a paste into the foam that you have in your mouth when you brush your teeth. And he says, with toothpaste. With toothpaste. Because the whole issue with the soap is that it changes its form, and it's no lad.
But by spreading the toothpaste on your teeth, it's not no lad, it's just soft, and it remains soft. It was soft, it is soft, it was pliable, it is pliable. So that's not really enough of a change. So l'chorah, by bubbles, there's no real impression that you've created something, nor any changing of the form in a significant way. It was a liquid, it still is a liquid, with some air in the liquid.
You know, this Shiloh comes up with whipped cream, that in the can it's a liquid, you spray it, and it's like a foamy type of cream. When it comes out, it comes up with toothpaste, as we said. And Shmira Shabbos Gilchisar of Neubert writes that you shouldn't blow bubbles. But you don't have to stop kids from doing it.
So generally speaking, you're not supposed to let your kids do malachas on Shabbos Eid. I mean, we're talking about kids that are at the age of chinuch. If they're below the age of chinuch, if it's a toddler or whatever, you don't have to stop them from doing anything. So what's he talking about? That you're not supposed to blow bubbles, but you shouldn't stop your kids from doing it?
So in the footnote, he writes that you're allowed to make soap bubbles when washing dishes and washing your hands. But over here, the whole kavana is to change the form and to create a new form. I mean, that's the whole point of what you're doing. Otherwise, why are bubbles fun? Just take the bottle of liquid and just pour it out. That wouldn't be as much fun, right?
That would be a very boring and quick activity. So what makes it fun is that you're turning it from this liquid. So because it's kavana l'kach, so he says, even though it's technically motor, probably better for adults not to do it. The third potential halakhic issue is the blowing itself. The Ramah writes in Simshim Yotas that if you spit into the wind on Shabbos, you're chayiv mishum zora.
Now, that zora is winnowing, where they would throw up the grain in the air so the wind would blow away the light shaft and the heavier kernels would remain. So harnessing the power of wind in order to blow spit is a melachadarais of zora, that you're using the power of the wind in order to get something from one place to another.
So even though, so the Mishabruah over there in Sivkat and Samach Zayin quotes Rabbi Kiveger, he says, what? That's an issue? That's winnowing? Wait, what are the fundamental characteristics of winnowing? Is that there's grain and there's what they call chaff, right? There's the good stuff and the bad stuff.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the malacha of bona in this context?
Is that any spray can of deodorant or anything like that? It's a liquid in the bottle and you spray it and it goes, a little bit here, a little bit there. So it's not kidulei karka, it's not a problem. So with bubbles, you're also not separating anything.
So even though you don't have all the kulavs of lo nichalei and all that, because over here it's absolutely nichalei, it would seem that it would be mutzah from a Zohar perspective as well, despite the fact that Ramaz Machmir on the saliva. In the Dershim HaShabura, in Note 67 over there, he discusses sprays of perfumes, which are minchas yitzchak, and chel gvav, simcha vav,
says it's not a problem of Zohar, because it doesn't sort anything, and that both Rav Al-Yashiv and Rav Moshe Feinstein agreed with the Menchas Yitzchak about that, that it's not a problem, and even putting water into a humidifier, where Mamish does that, right?
You're taking water, like a whole bunch of water, and just, the humidifier just puts it into tiny particles into the air, would be mutter, because once again, it's not sorting anything, it's not kidulei karka, and therefore l'chora, it would be mutter. So again, when it comes to the bubbles... As far as water in the grass, that's an easy solution.
Just don't do it where it's a Pesach Rashi that it's going to land on the grass. And even if it is a Pesach Rashi that it's going to land on the grass, it's not so clear to me that it's Aser. As far as Molid is concerned, it's very tricky to figure out what exactly the Kedarim are of Molid. One could argue, like the Shver Shabbat says, that if your whole Kavana is that change,
of form, maybe that's what qualifies it as a significant enough change of form. But pastures, if you're looking at it objectively, it's not enough of a change of form to be molded. And as far as Zohra is concerned, for all the reasons that the Mishabur and the B'yarlach have said, L'chorah, it is not a problem of Zohra either.
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