Is writing down a record of Shabbat wine purchases permitted using the pin-and-paper method?
Synopsis
The Mishnah Berurah forbids the practice of a seller using a pin to make holes in paper on Shabbat to record how much wine a buyer takes, because reading the pre-written monetary amounts constitutes reading shtarei hedyotot (mundane documents).
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