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Preparing food on Shabbat is a general topic that potentially can involve several melachot on Shabbat. If one wants to learn details about a certain melacha, please visit that melacha specifically. The specific related melachot include: [[Borer]] ([[Separating]]), [[Tochen]]([[Grinding]]), [[Merakaid]] ([[Sifting]]), [[Lash]] ([[Kneading]]), and [[Ofeh and Bishul]] ([[Baking and Cooking]]). B"H below will be the halachot of a number of practical cases of preparing food on Shabbat. | {{Stub}} | ||
Preparing food on [[Shabbat]] is a general topic that potentially can involve several melachot on [[Shabbat]]. If one wants to learn details about a certain melacha, please visit that melacha specifically. The specific related melachot include: [[Borer]] ([[Separating]]), [[Tochen]]([[Grinding]]), [[Merakaid]] ([[Sifting]]), [[Lash]] ([[Kneading]]), and [[Ofeh and Bishul]] ([[Baking and Cooking]]). B"H below will be the halachot of a number of practical cases of preparing food on [[Shabbat]]. | |||
==Soda on Shabbat== | |||
# Many hold that it is permitted to make soda on [[Shabbat]] using a soda making machine that fills the water with carbon dioxide.<ref>Yabia Omer 3:21</ref> | |||
==Ripening an Avocado== | |||
#It is permitted to place an avocado that is too hard but possible to eat to the sunlight so that it softens if one's intention is to eat it on Shabbat.<Ref>Dor Hamelaktim (Asifat Yitzchak v. 6 p. 4016)</ref> | |||
== Cutting Fruit into Shapes == | |||
# It is permitted to scoop melon into balls with a ball scooper.<ref>Orchot Shabbat 15:23, Eshmara Shabbat v. 2 p. 354</ref> | |||
# It is permitted to cut a food or fruit into a simple shape such as a triangle or square, but it is forbidden to cut it into a specific design or shape.<ref>Mishna Brurah 510:17, Chut Shani (Yom Tov p. 139), Divrei Binayahu 10:49, Eshmara Shabbat v. 2 p. 354. Divrei Binayahu quotes Leviat Chen p. 210 who disagrees with Maharshag that there's no writing with food. Yalkut Yosef (Yom Tov p. 188-9) writes that cutting fruit into a circle, square, or hexagon is fine, but cutting it into a complex shape like a fish is forbidden. Shevut Yitzchak (v. 14 p. 320) writes that cutting into a triangle is fine but into a star is forbidden. See, however, Mayan Omer 14:76 who writes in the name of Rav Ovadia that it is permitted.</ref> See [[Kotev]]. | |||
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Preparing food on Shabbat is a general topic that potentially can involve several melachot on Shabbat. If one wants to learn details about a certain melacha, please visit that melacha specifically. The specific related melachot include: Borer (Separating), Tochen(Grinding), Merakaid (Sifting), Lash (Kneading), and Ofeh and Bishul (Baking and Cooking). B"H below will be the halachot of a number of practical cases of preparing food on Shabbat.
Soda on Shabbat
- Many hold that it is permitted to make soda on Shabbat using a soda making machine that fills the water with carbon dioxide.[1]
Ripening an Avocado
- It is permitted to place an avocado that is too hard but possible to eat to the sunlight so that it softens if one's intention is to eat it on Shabbat.[2]
Cutting Fruit into Shapes
- It is permitted to scoop melon into balls with a ball scooper.[3]
- It is permitted to cut a food or fruit into a simple shape such as a triangle or square, but it is forbidden to cut it into a specific design or shape.[4] See Kotev.
Sources
- ↑ Yabia Omer 3:21
- ↑ Dor Hamelaktim (Asifat Yitzchak v. 6 p. 4016)
- ↑ Orchot Shabbat 15:23, Eshmara Shabbat v. 2 p. 354
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 510:17, Chut Shani (Yom Tov p. 139), Divrei Binayahu 10:49, Eshmara Shabbat v. 2 p. 354. Divrei Binayahu quotes Leviat Chen p. 210 who disagrees with Maharshag that there's no writing with food. Yalkut Yosef (Yom Tov p. 188-9) writes that cutting fruit into a circle, square, or hexagon is fine, but cutting it into a complex shape like a fish is forbidden. Shevut Yitzchak (v. 14 p. 320) writes that cutting into a triangle is fine but into a star is forbidden. See, however, Mayan Omer 14:76 who writes in the name of Rav Ovadia that it is permitted.
