May one spread straw in a rain-flooded courtyard on Shabbat to make it walkable?
Synopsis
The Mechaber permits spreading straw in a flooded courtyard only by an irregular method (using the underside of a basket), not by hand or normal method, since this is otherwise considered adding to the ground. The Taz permits using a non-Jew when there is great need.
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