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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@saber.towson.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:31:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: Shabbos Belts

Nachum Klafter in v32n73 calls a shabbos belt "contrived"

I disagree (depending on the belt of course)

If as Nachum outlines, the key functions as a belt-snatch to lock the
leather in place, then the key is a functional unit of the belt and
since the belt is a garment there is no carrying.

True--I am using this belt to carry the key but if I normally wear a
belt there is nothing wrong with this. For a fundamental idea of
shabbath is the prohbition of WORK not of RESULTS. I am allowed to eat
prepared foods and eg I am allowed to toss mixed silverware over the
table so that when I select forks and spoons I am not violating the
labor of SELECTION.

While in certain other areas of halachah we may look at intention, in
shabboth we principally look at method

Russell Jay Hendel;Phd ASA
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