Opinions of Poskim on the Use of Wet Wipes on Shabbat
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Question
What are the opinions regarding the use of regular wet wipes on Shabbat for changing diapers?
Answer
Shalom Rav,
Those who permit the use of wet wipes: Baal Igrot Moshe (in Shu"t Ravivot Ephraim, Part 6, Siman 190, Section 3), Baal Mishnah Halachot (Gilayon Aliba Dehalachta, Gilayon 63, p. 55), Shmirat Shabbat Kehilchata (Chapter 14, Section 37) which allows leniency if wiping gently and not squeezing the wipe. Chazon Ovadia (Shabbat, Part 4, p. 148, Section 20), Maamar Mordechai (Eliyahu, Shabbat, Part 3).
Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Shmirat Shabbat Kehilchata, Chapter 14, Note 99, and in Maor HaShabbat, Part 2, Letter 21, 22) was uncertain about this. However, in Orchot Shabbat, Birurei Halacha, Siman 7, it is written that Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach retracted and prohibited it absolutely.
Those who prohibit the use of wet wipes: Minchat Yitzchak (Part 10, Siman 25), Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (Halachot Shabbat, Part 3, Note 94, and in Am Mekadshei Shevi'i, Chapter 5, Section 33), Shevet HaLevi, Part 8, Response 59, Part 10, Siman 58, Kovetz MiBeit Levi, Part 6, p. 49, and Part 7, p. 41), Chut Shani (Part 2, p. 209), Gaon Rabbi Yosef Yoel Fischer (Maor HaShabbat, Part 2, Letter 21, and in the note Orchot Shabbat, Chapter 13, Section 46), Gaon Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, Gaon Rabbi Avraham Auerbach, and Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Dviltski (Gilayon Aliba Dehalachta, Gilayon 63, pp. 55-56) Minchat Shabbat (Chapter 2).
And the instruction of our teacher Gaon Rabbi Ovadia Fried is to prohibit.