The Sabbath can sweep the floor?




Dear Rav.

Possible on Shabbat if I sweep the floor if the small children very much litter and creates a bad impression dirt. This makes it difficult to enjoy the Sabbath, because for me the Shabbat and dirt - are incompatible.


How to do the right thing to, without breaking the Sabbath, to maintain the house clean in the most important and holy day?


Yours faithfully,


Liza


Lisa

Norway, Stavanger



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I understand and support your desire to keep the Sabbath in the house clean.

According to our laws, on Saturday on the floor there was trash - can be swept (broom dry).


In addition, I note that on the Sabbath we are allowed to clear the table after the first and second meals (take off his dirty dishes, to shake off the crumbs from the tablecloth, etc.). However, after the third meal, which is carried out just before sunset, all is left as it is (except, of course, the resulting mud, which produces an unpleasant impression), and make cleaning only after the stars in the sky.


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