Ruling on the Kosher Lamp

Chanoch HaCohen Ehrentreu

2003

I was asked by a resident in London concerning a portable electric lamp called “Kosher Lamp” which has a separate upper part which is made to direct the light or to cover it up altogether by twisting the shade, may it be adjusted on Shabbos, is there a problem of moving something which is Muktzah?1

It seems straightforward in Halacha that the upper…

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Chanoch HaCohen Ehrentreu

b. 1932

Born in Frankfurt, Chanoch HaCohen Ehrentreu came with his family to England before World War II. An Orthodox rabbi, Ehrentreu was the head of Britain’s United Synagogue Bet Din (rabbinical court), a post he held until 2006. Ehrentreu also has held rabbinical and Jewish legal posts at Gateshead and Manchester.

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