Opening a Broken Cork on Shabbat
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Question
I forgot to open a bottle of wine before Shabbat, so on Shabbat I made a hole in the cork. Then I wondered if it was permissible to open the broken cork, or if I should pour the wine through the hole I made?
Answer
Shalom Rav
There are two issues with opening a cork. A. Creating a cork for reuse - making a tool. B. Cutting the ring surrounding the bottle from the cork - cutting to size. Creating a hole at the top of the cork only solves the first issue, but the problem of cutting the ring from the cork remains. Therefore, even after creating the hole, the cork should not be opened from the ring.
Some permit cutting the ring itself in 2-3 places along its height, allowing the cork to be opened without separating the ring from the cork.
However, the opinion of our teacher, Rabbi shlita, prohibits such cutting due to cutting to size.