After blessing his youngest son, Moishy before the Friday night seuda, Abba fished in his pocket for a candy to give to Moishy.
“Oy!” he shouted.
“What’s wrong, Abba?!” asked the kids.
“There is money in my suit pocket!” he said nervously.
“Abba, can’t you just shake the money out of the pocket?” asked his son, Shimon.
“Why even do that?!” asked his other son, Yaakov. “Abba can just keep the money in his suit over Shabbos, since it’s only in a pocket.”
Little Moishy had to voice his opinion as well: “Abba, since money is muktza and we are not allowed to move muktza on Shabbos, you can’t move the whole Shabbos!”
Question: Who is right - Shimon, Yaakov or Moishy?
Hints & Answers
HALACHA CHALLENGE: Sefer Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchosa (20:75) teaches: “If someone finds a muktza item in a pocket of a Shabbos garment that he is wearing, the prohibition of בסיס (lit. a base - i.e., where the surface itself that the muktza item is laying upon becomes muktza since it is serving as a base for the muktza item) does not apply neither to the garment nor to the pocket, because, certainly, a person did not have an intention that the muktza item should remain there during Shabbos. Rather, he simply forgot to remove it from the pocket before Shabbos...But if possible, the muktza item that a person discovered in that garment on Shabbos should be shaken out from the pocket.”
RHYMES: “light”
RIDDLE: וּלְמַעַן יִיטַב לָךְ Chazal teach us this phrase is not in the first luchos because it has the word יִיטַב - and that word (which is a conjugation of the word טוב - good) is not fitting for the first luchos because they were going to be broken.
*Menucha answers are not to be taken as final decisions in halacha.
