[Avodah] Numbers and Letters on Bottlecaps

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

I've been wanting to see this psak for a while, and finally looked it up 
today. In Yalkut Yosef Hil. Shabbos vol. 2 p. 519 ROY paskens that if 
letters are printed on a bottlecap so that when one opens the bottle one 
rips the letters it is nevertheless permitted to open the cap on 
Shabbos! He says it is Middas Chassidus to open it prior to Shabbos, but 
that if one forgot to do so he may do so on Shabbos itself. His 
rationale (note 21) is that since he does not intend to erase the 
letters, even though it is a pesik reisha, since he has no hana'ah from 
the mechikah, and since this mocheik shelo al menas liktov is only assur 
me'd'Rabbanan, it is permitted. He refers to Tosafos in Shabbos 103a and 
Yoma 34b, to the Rashash to Kesuvos 6a, and to the Netziv, the Divrei 
Malkiel, and R' Yitzchok Elchonon in Be'er Yitzchok #15.

GCT,
YGB
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