{"id":35422,"date":"2013-05-21T21:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=35422"},"modified":"2020-09-08T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:47:48","slug":"melacha-4-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/melacha-4-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"39 Melachot: Melacha #4 – Me’amer (Gathering)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In constructing the Mishkan, me\u2019amer<\/strong>\u00a0(gathering<\/strong>) involved binding sheaves together; it is the fourth of the 11 agricultural melachot. For practical purposes, me\u2019amer involves any collecting of scattered produce. It doesn\u2019t have to be fruit, though\u2013anything that grows from the ground is subject to me\u2019amer. For example, the m\u2019kosheish eitzim (gatherer of sticks) who desecrated Shabbos in Parshat\u00a0Shelach (Numbers 15:32) might have been guilty of me’amer (although he might have been guilty of kotzer for breaking the sticks off of trees \u2013 see Talmud Shabbos 96b).<\/p>\n

\"GatheringAccording to most authorities, me\u2019amer only applies (a) to things that have not been previously gathered and (b) only in the place where the things grow and their gathering normally occurs. Therefore, if you knock the bowl of fruit off your host\u2019s Shabbos table, it\u2019s okay to pick up the fruit and put it back in the bowl. However, if produce scatters outside, one is rabbinically prohibited from gathering it as a weekday activity that is dangerously close to me\u2019amer (see Talmud Shabbos 143b).<\/p>\n

Additionally, once produce has been processed, such as weaving wool into a garment or carving a stick into a wooden spoon, me’amer no longer applies.<\/p>\n

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