Chapter 20
Categories of Muktzeh
Laws specifically relating to muktzeh on Yom Tov are explained in Chapter 21.
MUKTZEH MEI-CHAMATH GUFO
26.a. 1) Peels, shells, fruit pits (stones), and bones are muktzeh and, except in certain circumstances, may not be moved, if
a) they are fit for neither human nor animal consumption or
b) they are fit for animal consumption, but there is no animal in the vicinity to whom they could be given.
2) Nevertheless, one may remove such peels, shells, pits, or bones from one’s mouth with one’s fingers and put them on the plate.
3) When cracking nuts, one should not retain the shells in one’s hand for throwing away afterwards, but should throw them away or put them on the plate immediately upon cracking.
4) See Chapter 22, paragraphs 36 and 42, for the circumstances and manner in which inedible peels, shells, pits, and bones may be cleared away.
5) For playing games with apricot pits see Chapter 16, paragraph 10.
26.b. 1) The following are not muktzeh and may be moved, unless one threw them away before Shabbath:
a) peels, shells, pits, or bones to which some of the fruit or meat is still attached;
b) pits which contain some edible material inside them (as is the case with certain kinds of apricot);
c) bones which contain marrow.
2) It is irrelevant that one has no intention of eating the remaining fruit or meat, the contents of the pit or the marrow.
