[Avodah] magnets on Shabbat

[Lisa Liel]

Some fridge magnets, if you keep them on the fridge for too long, really 
get stuck.  To the point that they pull off a little finish if you take 
them off.  The rubbery kind, at least.  Maybe that's what he was 
referring to?

On 7/23/2012 12:11 PM, Doron Beckerman wrote:
> I don't see how it fits in with either definition of Tofer in Igros 
> Moshe (Orach Chaim II:84) - either it has to become one unit, or you 
> have to do an act that people would view as "keri'ah" to separate the 
> two items. Also, Terumas Hadeshen 296 says that if it separates easily 
> it is not considered a Chibbur vis-a-vis Tofer.
> The English books on Muktzeh (Rabbis Bodner and Cohen) both classify 
> magnets as kli shemelachto lehetter, and Orchos Shabbos only raises a 
> hava amina regarding boneh, not tofeir.
>
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