Quiz — הלכות שבת פרק ט

Question 1

Placing an egg next to a hot kettle until it slightly cooks on Shabbat — what is the ruling?

Any heat transformation counts. The Rambam rules that even slight cooking by proximity to a heat source makes you liable.

Question 2

Cutting your fingernails on Shabbat violates which melachah?

Cutting hair, nails, or mustache is a derivative of shearing. The body is treated like raw material in halachic categories.

Question 3

Is cooking food using surfaces heated by the sun Torah-prohibited?

Sun-heated cooking is different from fire-cooking. Not Torah-liable, but rabbinically forbidden to prevent confusion with actual cooking.

Question 4

What is the minimum amount of thread you must spin to be liable?

Four handbreadths — the standard minimum for thread-related melachot (spinning, dyeing). This is enough thread to be functionally useful.

Question 5

Creating paint by mixing colors on Shabbat violates which melachah?

Creating a color — even without applying it to fabric — is a derivative of dyeing. The melachah covers color creation, not just application.

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