Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!nachum From: nachum@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Hilchot Shabat Message-ID: <44500007@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 09:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.44500007 Posted: Fri Jan 11 09:49:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 08:28:38 EST References: <605@spuxll.UUCP> Lines: 5 Nf-ID: #R:spuxll:-60500:uiucdcs:44500007:000:306 Nf-From: uiucdcs!nachum Jan 11 08:49:00 1985 According to the book "Shmirat Shabat K'hilchata" (first edition, 12:16) "in case of need" it is permissible to turn the switch on (and certainly off) while the timer is off; to avoid "muktzeh" one should switch it unnaturally. [This book is highly regarded, but, of course, there are some who disagree.]