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Laws Derived from Isaiah: Measuring (721)

Chapter 29

Laws Derived from Isaiah: Running, Walking, Commerce, Measuring, Reading, Speaking

MEASURING AND WEIGHING ON SHABBATH AND YOM TOV

40.a. One may weigh or measure baby food, if one has to know how much the baby eats.

40.b. However, if possible, one should estimate the quantity rather than measure it exactly. (See paragraph 34 above.)

41.a. When preparing food on Yom Tov, one may use a marked measuring cup, in order to ascertain the quantities of the various spices and flavorings one is using, provided that

1) the taste of the food would be adversely affected if one were to use inexact quantities and

2) one would normally measure these ingredients if preparing the food on another day.

41.b. Nevertheless, one should not use scales to weigh the ingredients.

 

The halachot are taken from the book 'Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchatha - English Edition' under the authority of the Feldheim Publishers. All rights are reserved for the heirs of the author, the late Rabbi Y. Neuwirth ZT"L, and for Feldheim Publishers. Copying or distribution for commercial purposes is prohibited; distribution for the benefit of the public is allowed, without any compensation.
“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)