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The Prohibition of Insulating Food – How Do You Warm a Bottle of Baby Food Correctly? Let us consider another relevant question: insulating food within other food or inside a pot containing other foo…
When do we encounter situations in everyday life that involve the prohibition against insulating food? Not everyone wraps their pot in towels, so it may seem that this prohibition has little relevanc…
Definition and General Concepts We are beginning the final topic related to cooking—the prohibition against insulating food. Let us define insulation: wrapping a pot containing food, or the food itse…
The question raised in our title does not come up very often in practice, but it still needs to be discussed. What should you do if your cholent is sitting on the blech and starting to burn, or perha…
Continuing our discussion of returning food to the heat and warming food that was not on the heat, we need to examine another question. If, before Shabbat, we finished cooking the food until it was f…
This article is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Yehoshua Eitan, who was taken from us before his time on 6 Nisan this year. May his memory be a blessing! The subject of today’s article is relevant t…
Is it correct that the prohibition against returning food to the flame applies not only on Shabbat, but also on Friday? At first glance, the prohibition against returning food to the flame applies on…
What should you do if a pot was removed from the flame by mistake, or the gas or electricity was suddenly cut off? The question posed in our title is a striking example of how a theoretical Talmudic…
Let us continue explaining the five conditions for returning food to the flame. For convenience, we will list them again. To return food to the flame, the following are required: 1. It must be fully…
The Prohibition Against Returning Food to the Flame. General Concepts and Definitions We are beginning to examine a new topic related to the prohibition against cooking on Shabbat—the prohibition aga…
In this issue, we will devote our article to two questions. The first question concerns a method of leaving food on the stove called “kedeirah chayta”—literally, “a living pot.” The essence of this m…
Let us consider the following question: may food be left in an oven (electric or gas)? Many ovens sold in Israel have a setting on the control called “Shabbat mode” or “matzav Shabbat.” It means that…