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==Insulating before Shabbat== | ==Insulating before Shabbat== | ||
# One is not allowed to insulate a food before [[Shabbat]] with material that preserves heat, such as sand, as a gezerah that one will come to insulate the pot with coals and stoke them.<Ref>The Gemara (34a) forbids one to insulate before Shabbat with material that preserves heat. Shulchan Aruch 257:1 and 3 writes that olive peals, sesame, salt, lime, or sand are examples of materials that preserve heat. Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:75.</ref> | # One is not allowed to insulate a food before [[Shabbat]] with material that preserves heat, such as sand, as a gezerah that one will come to insulate the pot with coals and stoke them.<Ref>The Gemara (34a) forbids one to insulate before Shabbat with material that preserves heat. Shulchan Aruch 257:1 and 3 writes that olive peals, sesame, salt, lime, or sand are examples of materials that preserve heat. Shemirat [[Shabbat]] KeHilchata 1:75.</ref> |