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MUD ON GARMENTS- PART TWO

SEIF 7 (Cont.)
The Shvulei Haleket quotes R' Tam that one needs to be careful not to rub garments of linen on the outside of the garment, but it is permitted to rub garments of other materials, since the rubbing does not produce such good results, and therefore does not resemble laundering. The Magen Avraham says that the Shulchon Orech promulgates a universal prohibition concerning rubbing on the outside and does not differentiate between linen and other materials.

MUD ON GARMENTS

SEIF 7
If someone has mud on his garment, he may rub the stain from the inside (i.e. hold the garment in the place of the stain from the inside, fold the stain on itself and rub the two sides together), but it cannot be held from the outside (the place of the stain) and rubbed. The Gra points out that this is not comparable to rubbing a turban, which is always forbidden because it was done with the intention of brightening the actual material, while regarding mud on a garment, one only wishes to get rid of an external stain.

WIPING MUD FROM A SHOE

SEIF 6 (Cont.)
The Bais Yosef says not only may one wipe mud from his foot, one may also wipe off his shoes. This is not comparable to scraping mud off one's shoes (using a knife), which because it might come to scraping something off the leather portion as well, be prohibited because it would be considered part of the Malacha of smoothing. However, just wiping one's shoes off will not result in scraping the leather, and is therefore permitted. Even if it does result in scraping some leather, it would not be a P'Sik Reisha. The proof is that Rava's Shamesh used to scrape Rava's shoe with a shard of pottery.

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