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If I write a letter on motzi shabbos do I date it motzi shabbos of the pervious week or the coming week
Omgosh ilovetohock!!!
Thank YOU 🙂
So often I write cards on Friday during the daytime, to mail before Shabbos, and feel SOOOOOOooOOo self-conscious because I worry that someone will think that I wrote it on Shabbos (because I date the cards).
I wonder if I need to post or pre-date them. I’ve pre-dated cards a few times, which was nice, so maybe I can make that a habit.
Staying tuned to your thread to see what other posters have to say 🙂
LB, I don’t get it- if you wrote a letter on Fri, then it has Friday’s date, why would anyone thing you wrote in on shabbos? (By the way, there may be an issue with putting the card in the mailbox right before shabbos if you know for sure that the mailman will pick it up on shabbos – it may be an inyan of amira L’goyim- asking a non-Jew to do a melacha for you; I am not sure, you wold have to ask a Rav about this, or one of the CRers will pipe up)
OP- why do you have to refer to any week, just use the date and the day. Motzei shabbos in actually Sunday (we just are reluctant to let Shabbos leave, so we still refer to it in terms of shabbos, even when it is over), it’s the first night of the new week, you date it with Sunday’s date if you are using the Hebrew date. ie Motzei Shabbos, 12 Elul, or Sun 12 Elul, or Motzei Shabbos, Sept 2. Are you asking whether you write, Motzai Shabbos Parshas Ki Tezei (meaning the Parsah read that morning) or refer to the coming week’s Parsah? I think since Motzai refers to the past shabbos, you can write the name of the Parsha that was just read on that shabbos (ie which shabbos was just over? Parshas Ki Tezei).
My mother once told me not to write official letters on Motzei Shabbos since a goy looking at the date might think I wrote it on Shabbos. I never heard anyone else say this, but I have always tried to be careful about it ever since she told me that.
I believe the OP meant does she put on top of the letter “Motzei Shabbos Parshas Bereishus” or put “Motzei Shabbos Parshas Noach”, for example.
Joseph – thanks for the explanation – that makes sense! Not sure what the answer is… it’s a good question.
I would guess that if you write Motzei Shabbos, you should follow up with the previous week’s Parsha since it’s Motzei Shabbos of last week’s Shabbos. On the other hand if you were writing the date, you would write the next weeks’ Parsha (but in that case, you probably wouldn’t mention the Parsha anyhow).
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