<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-size:12.8px">This touches on my fitbit question of a short while ago. Say you had</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">a fitbit like device that posed no halakhic question other than this:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">After Shabbos you could push a button to see how far you walked or how</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">well you slept. >></span><div><br></div><div>I asked both R Ariel chief rabbi of Ramat Gan and R Rosen of Tzomet this question.</div><div>They both answered that technically it is permitted but it is zilzul shabbat and they would only approve it for medical need.</div><div><br></div><div>returning to running for electricty the article says</div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;background-color:rgb(244,244,244)">"The objective was to harvest energy from our living environment, for example, human walking or muscle movement and fabric; the goal is to drive small electronics (eg a smartwatch or phone)</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:17px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">So (1) there is positive intention to create and store electricity</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">(2) it might (in the future) be put into active use</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">So again it would seem to me that it is more serious than the heter for causing static electricity which has neither of these problems.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Similar to the fitbit even if it is technically allowed many poskim would forbid it as zilzul shabbat <br></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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