Bubbles? | Imamother

Nicole

Tue, Jun 26 2007, 2:59 pm

really? Why not? What if you're washing your hands (I do this for dd's amusement) and you make your thumb and forefinger into a bubble blower and blow thru it. Why is this assur?

TzenaRena

Tue, Jun 26 2007, 11:23 pm

In Shmiras Shabbos Kehilchasah by Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth, he writes not to blow soap bubbles, but you don't have to stop kids from doing it. (ch.16 p. 182)

He refers to a footnote in an earlier chapter (12) in which dishwashing liquid is discussed, and he rules that we are lenient regarding washing dishes with lotion, although it foams, that it isn't an issur of nolad or molid.
Although R. Moshe Feinstein held that it's "memachek", the shmiras Shabbos Kehilchosoh says "tzorich iyun" and brings that the opinion of the Ketzos haShulchan and others was that it's mutar.(provided that one prepares the lotion to be used in a mutar way, see paragraphs concerning that in ch. 12)

However, in the case of dw liquid, the foaming isn't intentional, just a byproduct, but in blowing bubbles, the shape is intentional.

however, he notes that he heard from R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach that there is no "kiyum" in the bubble, which is why one doesn't have to stop kids from doing it.

Now go ask your own Rav, how he holds! Very Happy