Shmuli and Zevi, the 6-year old twins of the Cohen family were looking for something to play with on a Shabbos afternoon. They looked in the toy box and Shmuli’s eyes landed on magnetic letters.
“Let’s make words with these letters on our refrigerator!” proposed Shmuli.
Zevi thought for a moment and said, “Well, it’s not similar to scrabble—which we cannot play on Shabbos—because in scrabble a score is usually written down, while here it is not. But here however, there is another potential problem: attaching magnets to a refrigerator!”
Question: Can they play Shmuli’s proposed game?
Hints & Answers
HALACHA CHALLENGE: Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchosa (16:24) teaches that it is not permitted to attach magnetic letters to the door of a refrigerator on Shabbos.
RHYMES: “me”
FIND: 1. 4:26, 2. 4:9
TRIVIA: She engaged in the conversation with the nachash. [We should learn from this not to engage in a conversation with the evil inclination when it “gently” begins a conversation]
*Menucha answers are not to be taken as final decisions in halacha.
