Is dragging very large furniture across a floor on Shabbat forbidden as a psik reisha?
Synopsis
Whether moving extremely heavy furniture is an inevitable act of digging (psik reisha) that is forbidden even when unintentional, and whether the prohibition extends to paved floors.
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