What Is Shabbat?
Shabbat was one of the subjects dearest to Dad (Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus, zt”l). Interestingly, when speaking on a wide variety of subjects and occasions, he often brought the discussion around to…
Queen Shabbat
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The Laws of Shabbat – How Do You Warm a Bottle of Baby Food Correctly?
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…
Shabbat Laws - “Crock pot” - A Pot for Slow Cooking
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…
Shabbat Laws - Complete and Partial Insulation
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…
Laws of Shabbat - How Can You Add Water to Cholent If It Starts to Burn?
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…
Shabbat Laws - Moving Cholent on the Heat on Shabbat
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…
Shabbat Laws - Warming Food on Shabbat
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…
The Laws of Shabbat - Returning to the Flame Before Shabbat Begins
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…
The Laws of Shabbat - What Should You Do If a Pot Was Removed from the Flame by Mistake?
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…
The Laws of Shabbat - How Should a Pot Be Returned to the Flame?
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 Laws of Shabbat - The Prohibition Against Returning Food to the Flame
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…
The Laws of Shabbat - May Raw Food Be Left to Cook on Shabbat?
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…