Sunday 27 March 2016

halacha - How much can you wipe your muddy shoes on a doormat on Shabbos?


I intend to ask this question in light of all Shabbos prohibitions, including carrying (insofar as deliberately removing something may bear, retroactively I guess, on its חשיבות), as well as dosh, tochen, losh, melaben, tzoveia, memachek, makeh b'patish and anything else that could come in. And of all types of mud: dry mud, wet mud, deeply embedded mud, crumbly mud, caked mud, and so on. (And of all types of doormats: wet; dry; is one with bristles a problem?)


What, in practice, should one do? Taking one's shoes off at the door is not a great option for Jewish life unless one has other shoes inside. Simply tracking the mud inside is not either.




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