1. a. Define the difference between Muktza Machmat Chisaron Kis, and a Kli She'Melachto L'Issur.

b. Give an original illustration of each one.

c. What is the difference in the laws of moving them.

2. a. Laundry is in what category of Muktza?

b. Is it permitted to remove laundry from the line if it was placed there soaking wet early Friday afternoon? Why or why not?

3. How may one remove leftover bones which are loose on the tablecloth:

a. On Yom Tov
b. On Shabbos

4. a. Is it permitted to adjust a painting which hangs (crooked) on the wall on Shabbos? Why or why not?

b. Is it permitted to move (i.e. close) the curtains? What is the difference between a painting and curtains?

5. Is it permitted to one use a sea-shell as a small candy bowl on Shabbos?

6. a. Is it permitted to move the broken (un-repairable) handle that fell off a knife on Shabbos?

b. Is it permitted to move the blade of the knife?

7. Is it permitted to move vegetables which have not been Ma'asered (tithed in Israel)? Why or why not?

8. Is it permitted to move candlesticks, which a non-Jew (with your knowledge and consent) lit during Shabbos, after the candles have burned out?

9. When does a drawer containing Muktza become a Bassis, whereby opening it in the regular manner is prohibited?

10. Under what conditions is it permitted to move (with one's hands) a tray which has a stone sitting on it, in a case where the tray did not become a Bassis at the beginning of Shabbos?

ANSWERS

1. a. Muktza Machmat Chisaron Kis is an object you decided not to use on Shabbos, because using it might damage it.

Kli She'Melachto L'Issur is an object whose main function is for Melacha, but you would use on Shabbos for a non-Melacha purpose.

b. Shechita knife. Pair of household scissors.

c. May not be moved at all in the normal way. May be moved if the object is needed for a permitted function, and nothing else appropriate is available. Or if its place is needed.

2. When laundry is wet, it is an unusable object (Muktza Machmat Gufo). If one didn't think it would dry over Shabbos (because of the time of year) it is Dachiya b'Yadayim v'Lo Chazi. In both cases it may not be moved.

When it is soaking wet now, or was soaking wet at the beginning of Shabbos it is Muktza Machmas Issur. It therefore may not be moved.

When it is usable (not wet) it is a Kli sh'Melachto l'Heter. One may therefore only remove the laundry from the line if it is usable right now, and was not wet at the beginning of Shabbos.

3. a. Because of Nolad, the bones are Muktza (they turned from human food into animal food). Thus one may only move them indirectly by way of something else (even if this is considered generally only an extension of one's hands), if one does so in order to clear the table. In this case, not touching the bones with one's bare hands is considered "indirectly."

b. The bones may be moved even directly with one's hands, because this type Nolad is not Muktza on Shabbos, and still has use as animal food.

4. a. No, because since one never moves this in regular use, and it has a designated place on the wall, it is Muktza (M'Yached l'Hu Makom).

b. Yes, because even though one wants the curtains attached to their designated spot, the ability to open and close them was always intended, and that is their function.

5. Since it is not typical to use a seashell as a bowl, before Shabbos one must decide to use it for a bowl for a long time, or effect a physical change (e.g. by painting it).

6. a. If the handle remains as some kind of usable object, then it may be moved like such a vessel. If, however, it has no use whatsoever (e.g. because the pieces are too small), then it may not be moved, just like Muktza Machmas Gufo.

b. The knife blade may only be moved if:

- it is still usable, or
- it is practical to use in a case where the handle could be repaired back to the knife.

This is, because if one couldn't cut with this knife whatsoever anymore, it became an object without use. And even if it is usable but only with much difficultly, then the Rabbis still prohibited moving such a vessel if the broken piece could be repaired (i.e. it itself is not broken or lost).

7. Since it is prohibited to Ma'aser food on Shabbos (Makeh b'Patish), and it is prohibited to eat non-Ma'asered food (Tevel), this food is not ready for consumption for a Jew. If, therefore, you would only keep the vegetables to eat yourself later and you wouldn't give it to a non Jew, then this is not "food," has no use, and is Muktza Machmat Gufo and may not be moved.

8. The candlesticks became a Bassis to the candles, but since this happened on Shabbos it only stays a Bassis while the candles are burning. Therefore after the candles burn out, they are a Kli sh'Melachto l'Issur and one may move the candle sticks (providing that you wouldn't mind using them for another function; otherwise they are Muktza Machmat Chisaron Kis).

9. It is prohibited when the owner wanted the drawer to serve the Muktza, and in the eyes of the owner there is nothing else more important than the Muktza object.

10. One is allowed to move the tray:

a. As long one does not do so in order to move the stone to a different place.
b. The tray is not a Bassis right now, i.e. there is something else at least as important at the time of moving.
c. For whatever reason, the stone could not simply be shaken off.