Hi,
If a
button falls from my shirt on Shabbos, is the button muktzeh?
Items that
perform a function when Shabbos starts, like a button that is attached to a
shirt, are not muktzeh. Even should they cease to perform that function during
Shabbos, they would not become muktzeh so long as they were intact. Therefore,
a fallen button is not muktzeh. However, it may not be re-attached until after
Shabbos.
Note:
- Some rule that a button loses its status
if it is not functional right now. It would be good to satisfy that
opinion, where possible, and treat a fallen button as muktzeh.
- If one were to decide not to re-attach the
button to the original garment, then the button would lose its status as a
functional implement, and it would be muktzeh.
- A button that has never been attached to a
garment is muktzeh.
(Shabbos
122b, 124b; Mishneh Berurah 308:35; Az Nidbiru 7:46; Shemirat Shabbat
k'Hilchatah 15:72, 15:(222); Rivivos Ephraim 1:223:7; Yalkut Yosef Orach Chaim
308:87)
Have a great day,
Mordechai
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