D'var Halacha

 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 […]

 We are continuing in siman 5, discussing the halachos of hatmana. The Chayei Adam moves on to the following question. We know that hatmana with a mosif hevel is assur even before Shabbos, but hatmana with a maamid hevel is muttar before Shabbos. What do we consider something which adds heat, but, as time goes

 We are continuing in siman 5, discussing the halachos of hatmana. The Chayei Adam writes that the definition of hatmana is when the insulating material touches the pot which is being insulated, and that it is surrounded on all sides. The reason Chazal prohibited hatmana was because they were concerned that a person is interested

 We are continuing in siman 5, discussing the halachos of hatmana. The Chayei Adam writes that Chazal prohibited insulating a food item even before Shabbos with an item which is mosif hevel, generates heat. On Shabbos itself, it is assur to perform hatmana even with an item which is maamid hevel, maintains the heat.   The

We are beginning siman 5, where the Chayei Adam will discuss hatmana, insulating food which is not on the fire. Although theoretically this could apply on Shabbos, the primary issue is when it occurs on erev Shabbos. Therefore, the Chayei Adam discusses this halacha primarily over here, although he returns to it later, when discussing

 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

 We have finished siman 3. We pointed out that the Chayei Adam does not discuss the solution of covering over the coals or knobs. This solution is discussed in the Gemara, and is known as gerufah u’ketumah. When one leaves food on the fire, there is concern one may stir the coals. But if one

 We are continuing in siman 3, discussing putting up food before Shabbos to cook into Shabbos. We mentioned that foods which are edible raw are not included in the issur of shehiyah; today we will discuss this point further.  The Chayei Adam writes that food items which are eaten raw, such as fruits or milk,

 We are continuing in siman 3, discussing putting up food before Shabbos to cook into Shabbos. The Chayei Adam writes that the halachos of shehiyah apply not only to foods which cannot be eaten raw, but even to foods which can be eaten raw, but are not easily eaten raw. If the food is easily

 We are continuing in siman 3, discussing putting up food before Shabbos to cook into Shabbos. We last discussed the concept of tosefes Shabbos, and the question that comes up regarding the fact that Chazal did not require one to ensure their food was edible by the time they accept Shabbos, but rather by shkia. 

  We are continuing in siman 3, where the Chayei Adam is discussing putting up food to cook from before Shabbos going into Shabbos. Yesterday, we learned that the food must be edible by sunset, rather than the time they accept Shabbos. For example, if one is making early Shabbos, the food does not need

  We are continuing in siman 3, where the Chayei Adam introduced the idea that it is assur to put up food to cook before Shabbos, unless it will be ready by the time that Shabbos begins without the person’s intervention. There is a machlokes between the Shulchan Aruch and Rema regarding when we consider

 We are continuing in siman 3, where the Chayei Adam is discussing the concerns associated with putting food up before Shabbos in order for it to continue cooking into Shabbos itself. One of the concerns we discussed (S0037) is that if food is still cooking on Shabbos, a person will stir the coals. The Gemara’s

 We are beginning siman 3, where the Chayei Adam is discussing performing an action on erev Shabbos which will cause melacha to be performed on Shabbos itself. We will begin with an introduction.  When it comes to food, meaning, a person setting up their food in a way that it will continue to cook into

 We are continuing in siman 1. Yesterday, we learned about a case in which one wishes to put wool into a pot to dye it. We learned that it will only be muttar if there are no concerns that it may come to an issur deoraysa, which, in our case, were stirring the coals and

We are beginning Klal 2, where the Chayei Adam will begin by discussing melachos performed on erev Shabbos which extend into Shabbos.  The issur from the Torah is performing melacha on Shabbos; melacha which takes place on Shabbos due to motions set in place before Shabbos is not assur from a Torah standpoint. Theoretically, this

 We are continuing in siman 12, where the Chayei Adam discusses checking one’s garments to ensure they do not carry muktzah items or carry in an area without an eruv.  The Chayei Adam writes that a person should check their pockets samuch l’chasheicha, close to nightfall, kodem l’chasheicha, before nightfall. Based on this language, the

We are beginning siman 12. The Chayei Adam discusses a Gemara which we include in Kabbolas Shabbos, when we recite Bameh Madlikin. The Gemara says that a person has a chiyuv to check their pockets on erev Shabbos in order to avoid leaving something inadvertently in their pockets and carrying it. The Chayei Adam writes