Q. I’m (a single woman that) was staying in my friend’s place and came home two hours before Shabbos to a lay on the bed. I put everything in the laundry but forgot to take it out of the dryer before I lit the candles. I know it was dry because I had checked it earlier and it was almost dry so it just needed a few minutes longer to be completely dry

I had covered the bed with a random sheet but there was no other linen to put on the bed. Was I allowed to take the sheets out of the dryer and finish making the bed? Does it matter if it was just after candle lighting or hours later? It’s not an electronic dryer. It’s an old one that doesn’t even have a working light.

A. On the onset, one should not leave clothes drying in a dryer once Shabbos has started since one is not allowed to have a noisy appliance run in his home during Shabbos; Igrois Moshe, O.H. 5:22-38, based on Rama, O.H. 252:6.

However, removing the clothes from the drier may be problematic since the dyer itself is muktza. Yet, Poskim permit to open the dryers door as long as no light turns off or on. (Igrois Moishe ibid.). It is better to do it with a Shinui (different way) such as using the back of one’s hand

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a