Yehudit wrote:



I also spoke with my Rav, who basically had said that it's better if I don't
look at
the screen, because I would be using it directly to be doing a melacha. I
guess, if I use a shinui and use the buttons without looking at the screen,
then
I guess it is much more indirect.



While my understanding of Hilchos Shabbos is immeasurably below that of your
Rav, I have difficulty understanding how not looking at the screen is a
shinui. My understanding is that pressing the buttons is a melacha. How does
not looking at the screen lessen the melacha? What do you do for your BG
checks? Don't you look at the screen to see the results? How is that
different from looking at the screen to assure you are bolusing the correct
amount?



I can understand if your Rav feels that a shinui is necessary and you press
the buttons with your knuckles because that is an actual shinui in the
melacha. When my wife was pregnant with our oldest child I discussed with my
Rosh Yeshiva what happens if I have to call the doctor or Hatzaloh on
Shabbos. His psak was that when one needs to use the phone on Shabbos or Yom
Tov that a shinui is necessary in order to press the numbers whereby you use
your knuckles; however he never said that you can't look at the number pad
when dialing.





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