{"id":21201,"date":"2022-10-27T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/?p=21201"},"modified":"2022-10-27T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:34:42","slug":"21201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/2022\/10\/27\/21201\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question: Am I allowed to spray disinfectant spray on a fabric couch on Shabbat if a child dirtied the couch?<\/h2>\n<h2>\nAnswer:<\/h2>\n<h4>Since the couch is fabric (as opposed to leather), spraying with disinfectant constitutes laundering (i.e., the melacha of libbun) and this is forbidden on Shabbat (Shulchan Aruch Siman 302 Se'if 10, Mishna Berura ibid s.k. 44).<br \/>\nInstead, it is permitted to gently wipe any dirt off with a dry cloth (Shulchan Aruch ibid).<br \/>\nHowever, if the couch in question would be a leather couch, it is permitted to spray disinfectant (or water, or any other cleaning fluid) onto the leather (Shulchan Aruch ibid), but not to rub the couch with the disinfectant spray.<br \/>\nThis is because regarding leather, the application of water is not considered laundering (i.e., the melacha of libbun), and only rubbing leather with water (or a cleaning agent) constitutes the melacha of libbun (min hatorah \u2013 see Mishna Berura s.k. 42).<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Am I allowed to spray disinfectant spray on a fabric couch on Shabbat if a child dirtied the couch? Answer: Since the couch is fabric (as opposed to leather), spraying with disinfectant constitutes laundering (i.e., the melacha of libbun) and this is forbidden on Shabbat (Shulchan Aruch Siman 302 Se'if 10, Mishna Berura ibid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[959],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ask-dh.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}