Those Who Study Torah Sustain the Entire World
In Chapter 1, verse 31: “And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” — there is a
On Shabbat, my daughter, son-in-law, and their one-month-old baby, who needs inhalation treatments every two hours, were staying with us. They had set a Shabbat timer for the outlet, but it turned out that the connection was loose, and whenever a small child touched it, it would turn on for a second and then switch off. In the end, we knocked the timer onto the floor with our foot and threw something heavy on it, which connected the contacts and turned it on. My question is whether we acted properly or whether we should have refrained?
You acted properly. Every infant is considered like a person who is ill but not in danger, for whom it is permitted to perform a rabbinically prohibited act. This is certainly so when it is done in an unusual manner.
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