Question:
B”H Regarding eating on Shabbat:
1. If someone uses a regular knife to put parve butter on bread (mindful not to “smooth” but just put the butter on the bread) and the knife leaves lines on the butter that it was taken from, are these lines a prohibition and then the food can’t be eaten, or is this not a concern?
2. If several food dishes are on one plate, and there is sauce that seeps into another dish, could this be considered mixing/ losh, or in this context it would not be an issue?
Thank you
Answer:
It s beautiful that you are so careful about keeping all the halachos and verifying everything.
- There is no need to worry about making those lines and there is no melacha involved. This is because these lines are meaningless, so it isn’t considered writing.
- Although losh sounds like mixing, in essence it is really kneading, which is when we add a liquid to bind the various solid peices to make a new entity. When some liquid runs from one food on your plate to the other, it isn’t binding anything, and nothing is accomplished but making the other food soggy. Therefore there is no halachc issue with that. Additionally even if it would be losh, you didn’t do anything, so it isn’t an issue.
Best wishes
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