Moving a Butterfly from One Domain to Another
Question
Hello,
A person living in an apartment found a butterfly in his home on Shabbat. He managed to place the butterfly on a piece of paper and wanted to release it from the house, so he extended the paper with the butterfly to the window, with part of the paper outside the window to let the butterfly fly away. Is this considered a violation of the prohibition of transferring from a private domain to a public domain?
Answer
Hello
If he takes it outside, it is considered transferring.
However, if he is standing in a private domain and performs an action within the private domain to let the butterfly fly into the public domain, it is not considered transferring.
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Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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