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Metered water tap on Shabbat
According to Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah (12:19) it is allowed to use a water tap on Shabbat, even though the water will be precisely measured by a meter.
This seems to be a psik reisha (an inevitable though inadvertent Shabbat violation). On what basis would it be permitted?
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I don’t know about you, but I don’t usually think or care about my water meter. It’s more for the utilities than it is for me, anyway. So I’d imagine it’s not merely a פסיק רישא, a direct causation, but rather a פסיק רישא דלא ניחא ליה, direct causation which one does not care. In such a situation, if one can knock the act in question down to a Rabbinically prohibited act, it’s permissible ab initio (Arukh, quoted in Biur Halacha 320:18).
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