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Today’s class explores the laws of Borer – selecting on Shabbos, part 2.
These laws are very practical and unknown. With one small move, like removing a hair from your soup, you may be violating Shabbos. You will discover the underlying principles of the prohibition to select and categorize on Shabbos.
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To #2:
The Baal HaTanya in his Sedur, in “Hilchesa Rabsa Leshabta,” says: It is good to prevent yourself from eating nuts on shabbos, unless you removed the shells on Friday. See there for the 2 explanations: Problems of Borer and Muktzeh. It would seem that based on the rational there, the same applies to sunflower seeds. Obviously, if you open the sun flower seeds before Shabbos and you are not opening the seed on Shabbos, it is fine.
I haven’t watched the video and don’t care to, but anyone who says you can’t eat sunflower seeds on Shabbos has no idea what they are talking about.
-A Rov.
always spitting their sunflower seeds…