Reply To: Tzitzis on Shabbos

Yea, I make sure not to run my fingers through the tzitzis now. But I’m asking in general, for Ashkenazim, are they allowed to constantly run their fingers through their tzitzis?

By the way, it is equated to doing business on shabbos, because they are both derabanan. Its not a stretch, its on the same level.

I don’t think any of the above posts really addressed what Ashkenazi poskim have to say about this.

The discussion comes up with the chazon ish, about whether you can untangle them on shabbos or not, because he discusses if you can make a bracha on tangled tzitzis, and this is under the assumption that you cannot untangle them. He didn’t seem to say that he was talking about the first time you ever put them on.