Q. Are glow sticks that were turned on before Shabbat and will light for a few hours muktza? Can one move them to another room?
A. See questions above. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that even if there is a possibility that when moving them, a further mixing of the chemicals in them may occur and result in an increase of the light they emit, since it is not a certainty and therefore not a “p’sik reisha’ and it is also not intentional, it would be permitted to move them. Therefore, the lighted glow sticks are not muktza.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
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