Reply To: Chillul Shabbos?

do you start Maariv when it is still Shabbos? if you haven’t made havdalah it is still shabbos for you so it s not hachana.

Well, yes and no.

Technically, Shabbos is over at the proper time. True, you cannot do melacha until you actually do a verbal havdala, but Shabbos is over at the time it’s over. If I did a melacha after the z’man, I would be violating a rabbinic principle against doing melacha before havdala, but I would not be violating the biblical commandment against doing melacha on Shabbos (and would certainly not be deserving of the death penalty).

The Wolf