April 17, 2023

 We have finished siman 3. The Chayei Adam ends the siman with a practical example. If people are traveling, and stop for Shabbos, if they put up food to cook, they must be sure it is cooked halfway before Shabbos. Again, we see the Chayei Adam stressing that one can rely on maachal ben derusai […]

 We have finished siman 3, and are discussing the concept of gerufah u’ketumah, which, for our purposes, means putting up a blech. We learned (S0039) that there are differences between Ashkenazim and Sephardim regarding how cooked the food must be before putting it directly on a fire (i.e., without gerufah uketumah) before Shabbos. This machlokes