General Principles of Muktzeh (515)
Chapter 22
General Principles Relating to Muktzeh on Shabbath and Yom Tov
OBJECTS WHICH, FOR EXTRANEOUS REASONS MAY NOT BE MOVED
15. It follows from paragraph 14a above that a door which one is not allowed to open because there is a burning candle close to it (in the circumstances detailed in Chapter 13, paragraph 33) may be opened-after the candle has gone out-only
a. in case of pressing need, for instance if one has to do so in order to enter one’s apartment, or
b. in the event that when the candle was still burning there existed a possibility, however remote or inconvenient, of opening the door in such a way that the candle would not be extinguished.
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“Shabbos is capable of having mercy upon us, and Hakadosh Baruch Hu will gather us from our exile. And were Yisrael to observe two Shabbasos properly, they would immediately be redeemed” (Zohar Chadas, Vayeshev)
