DailyHalacha.com for Mobile Devices Now Available

Click Here to Sponsor Daily Halacha
"Delivered to Over 6000 Registered Recipients Each Day"

      
(File size: 548 KB)
Preparing Fruit Juice on Yom Tob

Although it is permissible to cook and bake on Yom Tob, not everything necessary for food preparation is allowed. For example, the Sages enacted a prohibition against plucking fruits and vegetables on Yom Tob, even if one plans on eating them that day. Another exception is squeezing fruits to prepare fruit juice. On Shabbat, as we know, squeezing fruits is forbidden, and squeezing certain fruits (grapes and olives) is forbidden on the level of Torah prohibition. This prohibition applies on Yom Tob, as well. Although food preparation is generally allowed on Yom Tob, squeezing fruits for juice marks an exception. And thus it would be forbidden to use a juicer on Yom Tob to squeeze fruits, even if one wants to drink the juice that day. The Helkat Yaakob (Rav Mordechai Yaakov Breish, Zurich, 1895-1976) suggested allowing the use of a juicer on Yom Tob, because the apparatus extracts both the juice and the pulp from the fruit, such that no actual separation is being done. Hacham Ovadia Yosef, however, in Hazon Ovadia – Yom Tob (pp. 73-74), disputes this ruling, and rules that juicing fruits on Yom Tob is forbidden. This Halacha is codified in Yalkut Yosef (p. 131).

Summary: Although food preparation is generally allowed on Yom Tob, one may not squeeze fruits on Yom Tob to extract juice, even if one wishes to drink the juice that day.

 


Recent Daily Halachot...
Shabbat – Tightening or Attaching Hoods; Using Glue; Balloons and Inflatable Mattresses; Collecting Scattered Fruit
The Prohibition of Kotzer on Shabbat
Writing on Shabbat – Fingerprints, Photographs, Writing on Windows or in the Air, Pens With Temporary Ink
Shabbat – Cutting a Cake with Letters; Putting Letters Together in Scrabble
Dancing on Shabbat; Court Cases, Weddings and Pidyon Ha’ben on Shabbat
Making Sounds on Shabbat
Reading by Candlelight on Shabbat
Can a Person Have a Non-Jew Push Him in a Wheelchair on Shabbat?
Using on Shabbat a Brush or Broom With Fragile Wooden Bristles
Leaning on a Tree, or Sitting on a Tree Stump, on Shabbat
Is it Permissible to Relieve Oneself on Grass on Shabbat?
How Soon After Kiddush Must One Begin the Meal?
Berit Mila on Shabbat – Bringing the Baby to the Synagogue
Opening a Front Door with a Key on Shabbat
Using Baby Wipes or Moistened Toilet Paper on Shabbat
Page of 239
3585 Halachot found