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Metered water tap on Shabbat

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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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Dani‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

(Arukh is in Tos. in Ketubot 6a.3)

msh210‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Not just doesn't care: if he's the person paying the water bill, he'd rather the meter not tick.

tzvi‭ wrote over 3 years ago

This is a good start on the answer, but on what basis do we qualify it as Rabbinically prohibited?

DonielF‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@tzvi On what basis do we qualify it as Biblically forbidden? Most forms of electricity are considered Rabbinically forbidden, if technically forbidden at all.