Author Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein

The law if one transgressed the Chazara conditions:[1] If one heated food on Shabbos in a way that transgressed the Chazara conditions, then at times it is prohibited to eat the food on Shabbos. The following is the law: If the food was not fully cooked or contains cold liquid: […]

8. Attaching one’s electric plate or oven to a timer over Shabbos:[1] A. General rule:[2] It is forbidden to place a food that contains a cooking prohibition [as explained in Halacha 1] on or even near a heat source that will eventually turn on and heat the food to Yad […]

Heating near oven or fire-May one place food very close to his oven, stove top, or electric plate? No cooking prohibition:[1] It is forbidden to heat a food near a fire or other source of heat if there is a cooking prohibition involved in heating up the food [as explained […]

If on Erev Shabbos one placed a pot on top of another pot, may he later on Shabbos place the upper pot on the blech or electric plate?[1] According to all, if when one removed the upper pot from the flame and placed it onto the lower pot on Erev […]

Summary of the requirements needed to be allowed to add hot water to ones Cholent on Shabbos:[1] Both the water and the Cholent are fully cooked.[2] The water is poured directly from the boiler to the Cholent, without placing the water in any pot in-between. [However, regarding using a spoon […]

Returning the pot onto a different fire:[1]   When the above 6 conditions are fulfilled, then it is permitted to return the food even onto a different covered fire, even if the second fire is hotter than the original one. [Thus, one may remove his food from his oven and […]

The six conditions needed to return a food to a flame, Blech, or electric plate:[1] One may only return a food to a source of heat, such as a fire, Blech or Electric plate, if all the following six conditions are fulfilled: The food is fully cooked and does not […]

H. Oven or heat source is less than Yad Soledes: The definition of Yad Soledes Bo:[1] A Yad Soledes area is defined as an area that is hot enough that if the food that he is returning there were to be cold, it would be able to heat it up […]

May one place Challahs directly on the blech in order to warm?[1] Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurbach writes that it is allowed to place Challahs to warm on areas of the blech which are not directly over the fire, being that this is not the regular way of baking during the […]

May one heat food on an electric plate on Shabbos?[1] By an electric plate with more than one setting it is forbiddenit is forbidden to return food, and certainly to initially heat food, on it on Shabbos. If there is only one setting it is disputed amongst Poskim as to […]

Blech-Heating food on a blech on Shabbos:[1] Heating foods on a Blech on Shabbos retain the same restrictions as a covered flame in which case one must fulfill all six Chazarah conditions to return a pot of food onto it on Shabbos. Thus, if the area can heat the food […]

May one return his Cholent to the crock pot upon fulfilling all six conditions of Chazarah? Does a crock pot have the status of a stove or an oven in regard to Chazara?[1] Returning food into the crock-pot is similar to returning it to an oven. Thus, seemingly whether this […]

Covered Flame-Radiator, Heater:[1] It is forbidden to place food on top of a covered flame, in order to warm it up, unless all the six Chazara conditions are fulfilled.[2] This applies even if the area is not Yad Soledes. However, if one places another item on top of the radiator […]

Ovens-Heating/Returning food into a hot oven on Shabbos:[1] Fulfilling the six conditions only allows one to return a pot of food onto a stove top, electric plate or Blech. However, one may never return the food into a hot oven even if all the 6 conditions are fulfilled, and even […]

Heating on top of pot-Warming the food on top of a pot that is on the fire:[1] One may place any food [even from the fridge] on top of a pot that is on a fire [even if the fire is not covered], as long as warming it up on […]