Can You Flush The Toilet On Shabbat
Camila Farah
Fwiw at my last job there was a orthodox college intern who claimed that he could not flush the toilet on the sabbath.
As to the outlet pipe there is some delay and disconnect between the flush of your toilet and waste coming out the other end. Show activity on this post. One is not permitted to tear sheets of toilet paper from a roll on shabbos or yom tov whether the tearing is done along the perforated line or in between tearing a sheet of toilet paper from the roll is a constructive act of koraya because a usable sheet is thereby produced. When i asked the other 4 orthodox jews who worked there they all claimed he was crazy.
He said he had trained his dorm roommate to go in and flush for him afterwards. Paper towels also fall into this category. The reason for this is that the mechanical action of releasing the water that flushes out the old water involves no melachah prohibited act of labor and therefore no prohibition is involved. Can you flush the toilet on shabbat.
Yes it is permitted to flush the toilet on shabbos. How to approach it. Pre tear toilet paper before shabbat or use tissues. For paper towels pre tear what you might need or use paper napkins.
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