B's'd' Internet Parsha Sheet on Parshas Vayakhel
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B'S'D' There are three possible methods of preparing cholent for Shabbos: on top of the stove, inside the oven and in a crockpot(2), and all three are INTERNET PARSHA SHEET susceptible to the following Shabbos violations: 1.The Biblical prohibition ON PARSHAS VAYAKHEL - 5757 of cooking on Shabbos; 2.The rabbinical prohibition of putting food on a heat source before Shabbos and leaving it on during Shabbos. The reason for For e-mail of current or back issues contact [email protected] this ordinance is to prevent one from inadvertently "stoking the coals," or its Some Internet Dvar Torah Lists modern equivalent, adjusting the knobs to raise the temperature. 3.The VIRTUAL JERUSALEM: E-mail to: [email protected] In msg type: subscribe <listname> rabbinical prohibition of returning [on Shabbos] food to a heat source, since Your_Name" Some of lists: Aviner-Eng: Ateret Cohanim; Ask: Ask-the-Rabbi; Bircas: Parsha by then, too, one would be inclined to adjust the temperature. 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Send command "lists" for lists. that the fire is covered by a blech, even if the cholent is already cooked SHAMASH: E-mail to [email protected] In message write " sub 'listname' <your name>" completely before sunset(3). If cholent is less than half-cooked [or under Bytetorah: Zev Itzkowitz; Enayim: YU parsha; Daf-hashavua: London; mj-RavTorah: Rav extenuating circumstances it may be only a third cooked], a blech is Soloveichik ZTL on Parsha. Send "lists" for list. halachically required. Some poskim recommend covering the knobs which PROJECT GENESIS E-mail to [email protected] with "subscribe listname <your e-mail address>" in message. Lists include: Weekly -Halacha: by Rabbi Doniel Neustadt;; DvarTorah: by control the flame in addition to a blech(4), while other poskim require it(5). Rabbi Green; Halacha-Yomi ; Maharal; Rambam; Ramchal; RavFrand; Tefila; Drasha by Rabbi On Shabbos: To remove a cholent pot from the fire with the intention of Kamenetxky. Send "lists" for complete list. putting it right back on, e.g., to add water to it or to serve it at a kiddush SHEMA YISRAEL: E-mail to: [email protected] In msg type: subscribe <listname> Your_Name" Some of lists: Peninim - on the Torah by Rabbi A. Leib Scheinbaum; Outlooks on before a meal, the following conditions must be met: 1. The fire [and Parsha by Rabbi Zev Leff; Hear - insights from Rabbi Weber; Companion - Shalom Bayis by Rabbi knobs(6)] must be covered with a blech [a blech may be placed over the fire Feinhandler; Yitorah; Daf-insights, Daf-background, Daf-review, etc. by Rabbi Kornfeld. Send "lists" on Shabbos(7)]; 2. The cholent must be completely cooked and still warm for complete lists. when returned to the flame; 3. L'chatchillah, one should not rest the cholent CHABAD E-mail to [email protected]. In subject write: subscribe me. In text write: "Subscribe <code> (e.g.: code = W-2)" Some of Codes: D-3) Rambam Daily; W-2) Likutei Sichos pot on any surface. On Parsha; W-3) Week in Review on Parsha; W-4) Once Upon A Chasid; W-7) Wellsprings - INSIDE THE OVEN Chasidic Insight into Torah Portion. Send "lists" for complete list. On Friday: It is advisable that cholent be completely cooked before ISRAEL NEWS To: [email protected] Subject: Subscribe Listname <your name> Shabbos begins. If it was not, or b'dieved, as long as the cholent is half Type "Subscribe <listname> <your name>". Lists include "Israline" and "Israel-mideast". Must confirm w/i 48 hours by sending to same address msg "OK xxxx" with xxxx the code recive in cooked [or under extenuating circumstances it may be a third cooked], it may confirmation. Also Jer1 ([email protected]) has Arutz-7. be left in the oven. If the cholent is not cooked to even this extent, then the WWW - Shamash - http://shamash.org & http://shamash.org/tanach/ dvar.html; Jerusalem 1 - cholent may not be left inside the oven - unless an oven insert is placed inside http://www.virtual.co.il; Maven - http://www.maven.co.il; YU - http://yu1.yu.edu; YHE - http:// www.virtual.co.il/education/yhe; OU - http://www.ou.org; Chabad - http://www.chabad.org; JCN it. http:// www. jcn18.com; Project Genesis http://www.torah.org (see also ftp://torah.org for more On Shabbos: In the opinion of many poskim, if cholent was removed archives); ShamaYisrael - http://www. shemayisrael.co.il; Children - http://www.pirchei.co.il; Aish from inside the oven it may not be returned to the oven - unless there is an Hatorah http://www.thewall.org; Rav Soleveichik archives - gopher:// shamash.org:70/11 oven insert inside(8). A minority opinion holds that if the stove knobs are /judaica/tanach/commentary/mj-ravtorah & http://shamash.org/mail-jewish/rov.html; Rabbi Leibtag Tanach archives - http://www.virtual.co.il/torah/tanach; Rabbi Mordechai Elon - http://www. covered or removed, then the cholent may be returned to the oven even intournet.co.il/mtv/parsha.html; YOSS Drasha http://www.yoss.org/ whindex.htm; List - http:// without an insert, if the conditions listed above are met(9). www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Religion/Judaism; Israel - http://www.ac.il; Good link page - CROCKPOT http://www.ucalgary.ca/~akiva/HOJMI/links.html ; NCYI - http://www.youngisrael.org; My link page - http://members.aol.com/CRShulman/torah.html; Hebrew fonts - http://www.virtual.co.il/ On Friday: It is advisable that cholent be completely cooked before education/yhe/hebfont.htm; Congregation Bais Yitzchok - http://members.aol.com/shtiebel/ Shabbos begins. If it was not, or b'dieved, as long as the cholent is half jamaicaestates.html ; Holliswood Jewish Center - http://www. geocities.com /CollegePark/3648/; cooked [or under extenuating circumstances it may be a third cooked], the Upcoming YIJE site - stay tuned! cholent may remain in the crockpot and continue cooking. If the cholent is not cooked to even this extent, then the cholent may be left in the crockpot only if heavy duty silver foil covers the heating element (base) of the crockpot(10) and the control knobs are covered(11). [email protected] (Jeffrey Gross) [email protected] On Shabbos: Cholent may be taken off the heating element and returned [email protected] WEEKLY-HALACHA FOR 5757 COPYRIGHT to the crockpot later on Shabbos provided that the conditions listed above are 1996-7 met. The heating element of the crockpot must be covered with aluminum SELECTED HALACHOS RELATING TO PARSHAS VAYAKHEL foil(12.) By Rabbi Doniel Neustadt ADDING WATER TO CHOLENT Boiling water may be added to cholent A discussion of Halachic topics related to the Parsha of the week. For final under certain circumstances - if the cholent is completely cooked and the rulings, consult your Rav. source of heat is covered with a blech or aluminum foil. Since there are You shall not kindle fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day (35:3 ) several permissible methods of adding boiling water to cholent, we will list COOKING CHOLENT ON SHABBOS them in order of their halachic preference: Of all of the thirty-nine forbidden melachos of Shabbos, the Torah mentions Where should the cholent be when the water is added? 1. Removed from the only one explicitly: Do not kindle a fire. This prohibition is singled out to heat source and held in the air, not resting on any surface at all(13); 2. disabuse us of the notion that cooking may be permitted on Shabbos since, Removed from the heat source and balanced partially on a surface(14); 3. after all, Shabbos is a day of oneg, pleasure(1). In fact, as we know, regular Removed from the heat source and placed on a surface without releasing cooking is a forbidden melachah, and anything akin to cooking which is one's grip on the pot(15); 4. Removed from the heat source and shifted over permitted on Shabbos is governed by complex halachos, with modern to an area of the blech that is still hot(16); 5. On the heat source itself. This technology only increasing their complexity. As cholent is the classic method should be utilized only as a last resort when the other options are not example of a food which is partially cooked on Shabbos, we will outline the available(17). The water must be poured in slowly and gently. relevant halachos: How Should The Water Be Transferred From The Kettle or Urn To The Cholent Pot? 1. Directly from the urn to the pot. 2. Insert a [parve] ladle into Harav S.Z. Auerbach (Shmiras Shabbos K'hilchasah pg. 6 and Tikunim the urn [leave it in for several seconds(18)] and then ladle the water into the U'milluim); Harav Shmuel Auerbach quotes the Steipler as permitting this pot(19).