Category: Oneg Shabbos

One of the remarkable aspects of the story of the prophet Yonah that we read recently on Yom Kippur, is that Hashem sent Yonah to warn the non-Jewish people of Nineveh that Hashem had noted their wickedness and would destroy the city if they did not repent.

Rashi in this week’s parsha quotes the gemora in Chullin Daf 60b, which tells us that Hashem created the sun and moon as two equal sized planets and sources of light.

In describing the just ways of Hashem, the Torah states: “A reliable G-d, without injustice, He is trustworthy and without iniquity” (Devarim 32:4).

This week, our discussion of Sabbath mode ovens makes a timely finale and will examine their use on Yom Tov. In previous sections of this article we have discovered that use of these ovens on Shabbos must be limited to follow specific halachic criteria. Is this the case on Yom Tov?

Despite its name and its hechsher, the Sabbath mode oven does not necessarily offer the most convenient means of heating food for Shabbos. The hotplate/blech can, under the right conditions, be used to heat foods ON Shabbos; the oven can ONLY be used for food inserted beforehand.

The advent of the ‘Sabbath mode’ ovens - manufactured under leading brand names some years ago - came as music to the ears of many housewives. Gone are the days of hot plates and slow cookers clogging the kitchen worktops. But are these ovens really the ultimate halachic solution for warming our Shabbos food?

“If a bird’s nest chances before you on the road, on any tree, or on the ground, and [it contains] fledglings or eggs, if the mother is sitting upon the fledglings or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother upon the young. You shall send away the mother, and [then] you may take the young for yourself, in order that it should be good for you, and you should lengthen your days.