- The 39
Melakhot (Hebrew: ל״ט אבות מלאכה, lamed-tet avot melakhah, "39
categories of work") are thirty-nine
categories of
activity which Jewish law identifies...
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exercises control or
dominion over one's environment. In
addition to the 39
melakhot,
additional activities were
prohibited by the
rabbis for
various reasons...
- Bennett,
regarding the
melakhot on both
Shabbat and Yom Tov.
Minchat Chinuch,
which contains a
section discussing the 39
melakhot of
Shabbat in the discussion...
- rule that
there are 39
prohibited activities of work (referred to as "
melakhot"), such as
turning electric devices on or off,
driving cars, and more,...
- Mitzvah:
objects used only to
perform a non-Shabbat mitzvah; e.g. a lulav. 39
Melakhot, the
activities prohibited on
Shabbat also Muktzah, Muktza, Muktze, Muqtzeh...
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Shabbat and the
biblical festivals is the
requirement to
refrain from the 39
Melakhot on
these days.
Melakha is most
commonly translated as "work";
perhaps a...
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between home and the synagogue, thus
inadvertently violating one of the 39
Melakhot, a
greater sin than
neglecting the
banned mitzvah.
Another rare and limited...
- that the
words "These are the words" in
Exodus 35:1
referred to the 39
Melakhot that God
taught Moses at
Mount Sinai. Similarly,
Hanina bar Hama said that...
