[Avodah] Is a Bell Definitely Mukze?

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:53:58PM +0100, Arie Folger wrote:
: In OC338, BY prohibits all *musically* *intended* sounds made through
: the agency of any object.
: Ramo goes further, and prohibits all sound productions through the
: agency of an object, including non-musical sounds. Taz extends this to
: the bells on a mantle of a Torah scroll.

: However, Arukh haShul'han finds all that excessive, and seems to follow BY.

: Unsurprisingly, Mishnah Verurah goes with Ramo's stringency. Shemirat
: Shabbat keHilkhato rules like Ramo, with the exception...

: I wonder, did any Ashkenazi poskim cite Arukh haShul'han approvingly
: in this matter?

Someone must, or are there no bells on the kesarim on the sifrei Torah
in your shul? Common practice (across most Eastern European and Sepharadi
qehillos, if not across the board) is not like the Taz.

(Anyway, some of us hold the AhS to be poseiq acharon and not require the
support you seek anyway.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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