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Working out on Shabbath ?
q_q_:
since catering job is not every day
you should have the energy to workout at home at days when you aren`t at the catering place.
Even at the catering place, you probably get good food there, you always have evenings
And if there is a possibility of a shower, then you have lunch break as an option too.
You could get a "door gym", and do pullups anywhere there is almost any door!
Eliezer Ben Avraham:
--- Quote from: jdl4ever on March 17, 2008, 04:58:42 PM ---The Rambam in Hilchot Shabbat Chapter 21 states that exercising on the Shabbat (he then gives an example of walking until you break up a sweat) is Rabbinically prohibited and he then gives a very weird reason; because it is a type of Refuah (healing practice) and in that Chapter he says that medicine and healing remedies are Rabbinically prohibited because one might come to grind the herbs together to make the medicine which is a Biblical prohibition on the Shabbat.
--- End quote ---
what did yosef caro say?
Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
Sorry I didn't respond back earlier.
It is best to refrain from exercise and use of all excercide machinery and weights on Shabbat. An ill person who is instructed by a doctor to perform daily physiotherapy excercises may perform them on Shabbat. It is also wholly permissible to take walks on Shabbat, and even to walk distances greater then necessary for health reasons. It is forbiddden to massage a healthy person on Shabbat.
page 221 from The Sefardic Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
My rabbi once told me that it would be avodah, not melacha, so technically I could if I wanted (obviously not according to all opinions, as Tzvi has shown), but it's not really in the spirit of the day, and you won't find anyone who is shomer shabbos really doing that. I wasn't sure what he meant by "not in the spirit of the day" until I started keeping Shabbat fully a few times, and then I understood what it was all about. There wasn't any need or desire to do anything except fully immerse in shabbat, learning resting eating, etc. I agreed strongly with what CHaim said to this question in ask JTF, there's a whole 6 other days to do that kind of stuff (exercise etc).
Are you living at school, do families ever host you or you have somewhere to go for Shabbat?
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