April 24, 2023

 We are continuing in siman 5, discussing the halachos of hatmana. We left off with a contradiction in the Chayei Adam. On the one hand, he writes that hatmana b’miktzas is muttar, but on the other hand, he only allows for the coffee pot to be submerged in sand if the majority of the pot […]

 We are continuing in siman 5, discussing the halachos of hatmana. The Chayei Adam is discussing a scenario in which a person is trying to perform hatmana on coffee. They dig a hole in the floor of the oven and place the coffee pot there. The Chayei Adam wrote that this is muttar, as we