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From: mis@spuxll.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg)
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Subject: Hilchot Shabat
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 14:12:19 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 14:12:19 1985
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Does anyone know the answer to this:

 There is a lamp plugged into a timer on shabat. It is now
2 pm. The timer is set to turn on at 3 pm. As in stands now,
when 3pm. comes the light won't go on because the switch on the lamp
was not turned on. If at any time before the timer comes on, one
turns the switch on the lamp on, is he doing a Melacha, even though the
lamp does not turn on now, but he causes that it can turn on later?
(I know the lamp is Muktzeh, the question only on causing the light
to come on).

			Meyer Steinberg