Reply To: Stealing the Afikomon

“lulav and shofar that carrying is the same as any other shabbos” – we know what a kzayis and a rebiis is because we are always eating and drinking (and that is the basic chiyuv of lel pessach – to eat matza, morar and drink the kossos), but we don’t always blow shofar to know the proper tekiyos and brochas (litkoah or lishmoah kol shofar), and we don’t always shake the lulov (How to hold, directions, brochas – al netlah or al lekicha).

” if we are worried that someone might carry” – that is not motzuy (common), that the guy should totally forget it is shabbos. A mazik that is not motzuy, we are not concerned about on leil shimurim (but Chazal were worried about it on Rosh Hashana and Sukkos – enough to be mevatel a mitzvah assay, just to prevent the remote possability that a pusta amm haaretz will forget it is shabbos, so on yid does that mitzva assay that year! What tremendous caring for another yid, mesiras nefesh, giving up spiritual gains of a mitzva asasay, just so that another yid does not falter)..