Monthly Archive: January 2026

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום חמישי, Shevat 11 – Review Questions (01/29/26)

Dr Cohen and Alan Gutman again sent a write-up from yesterday’s questions.

Please review them and comment – We will discuss it today

What are the permissible methods to reheat a cold potato kugel on Shabbos morning?1. Near the fire even if the fire is open2. On top of a crock pot or inverted pan that is on the fire.3. Not sure if we can place directly on a blech, i think there is a distinction between Sefardim and Ashkenazim but don’t remember.

May one place a pickle on top of a piece of hot yerushalmi kugel?The question is whether a pickle is considered cooked. For Kashrus pickling is considered cooking from the torah but for shabbos we think it is only cooking drabannan. If it is cooking drabannan, then you can not place on top.

May one place a piece of hot potato kugel on his plate on the area that has salad dressing?no, the kugel is a dvar gush and is considered a kli rishon. A cooked liquid that has cooled cannot be reheated via a kli rishon. We think most salad dressing are not cooked.

Is hot water from a Kli Rishon placed into a thermos considered a Kli Sheini or Kli Rishon?

May one reheat a frozen challah?

May one place a raw apple into a pot of hot water Kli Rishon?

Can one bake an egg in the sun?

What is considered warm in regards to reheating liquids?

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Borer – Wednesday night shiur, Shevat 11 – Filtering Water (01/28/26)

Filtering water

How is it permitted to filter water on Shabbos?

How do we conclude lhalacha?

Learn טור ושו”ע ס’ שי”ט סע’ י

Note the two opinions brought in Shulchan Aruch?

How do we conclude?

If someone is sensitive and will only drink filtered water is he permitted to drink water that most people drink without it being filtered?

Learn ביאור הלכה 

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום רביעי, Shevat 10 – Review Questions (01/28/26)

Please write the answers and email them to me

Dr Cohen and Alan Gutman again sent a write-up from yesterday’s questions.

Please review them and comment – We will discuss it today

If someone forgot to add salt to the soup when it was cooked. 

How can one add salt?The Gemara has two opinions about salt. Our salt is typically made from something that is considered either cooked or baked. In salt’s case we saw according to the Chazon Ish that neither cooking or baking salt changes the taste and therefore removes the question of cooking after baking etc. It would appear from him that a kli rishon would be ok. If salt was made simply evaporation, then it was never cooked and we should be machmir for a kli sheni to most poskim although some argue it needs to be a kli shlishi.

How can one add black pepper into their soup?We consider Spices as kalay bishul. Therefore can only be placed in a kli shlishi. But if soup is taken with a ladle then the soup bowl is a kli shlishi and pepper can be used. 

May someone place croutons in their soup? Challah in soup?Osem croutons are fried so it is bishul and no bishul after bishul.  If croutons were only baked then they are considered like bread and should be only used in a kli shlishi?

May one place Cholent on their plate which the liquid of the Cholent will spread into the salad on the plate?The way many people serve cholent is that they take the ladle into a crockpot and then place into a serving bowl and then from there a ladle on to the plate. So if we consider the ladle as a separate kli, then the plate is a chamisi and if the ladle is not counted then the plate is a shlishi. However, a dvar gush can be considered a kli rishon. The question is what is the liquid considered. In shiur we did not discuss the liquid. We will opine that the liquid does not take on the kli rishon designation, and then the liquid coming in contact with the salad should be permitted.

May one reheat a piece of chicken in a tin pan by placing it on top of a pot that’s on the fire which the sauce on top will melt? The way this question is phrased, it sounds like the sauce congealed. We will assume that the sauce was made independently of the chicken as a cooked liquid. However, since it has congealed, we will treat it as a solid, like butter. Therefore, when it melts, you are melting a solid and should be permitted. 

How can one heat up a baby bottle on Shabbos?There are two types of baby bottles. either mothers milk or formula with uncooked water. If from mothers milk we will assume that it is kalay bishul and therefore it requires a kli shlishi. Regarding formula, water is not a kalay bishul and from AI, we see that formula is made as follows:

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If this is how it is made according to Rav Moshe and his non chumra opinion one can make formula directly into kli rishon hot water

May one heat up a solid baked meat roll some of the fat will liquify from the heat? 
Yes, the fat is solid and melting, doesn’t it change its nature. We did see opinions that disagree but we think that the majority view is that it is okay. 

May one place challah on top of a crockpot or upside down pan on hotplate challah to become hard like toast? If we consider roasting and baking as the same (dry heat) then there is no problem even if we know that toasting changes the flavor. There are opinions that roasting and baking are different (at least I remember that) and then if the taste changes this may prohibit this. We do not poskin this way we believe.

What are the permissible methods to reheat a cold potato kugel on Shabbos morning?

May one place a pickle on top of a piece of hot yerushalmi kugel?

May one place a piece of hot potato kugel on his plate on the area that has salad dressing?

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Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim:Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום שלישי, Shevat 9 – Review Questions (01/27/26)

Based on what we learned – 

I would like you to break down the following questions into the core issues that one faces in the following questions and all the variables. Please come to a conclusion on how one would be permitted to get the desired result.

Please write the answers and email them to me

Question:

May one place a lemon in their hot tea?

May one place honey in their hot tea? 

Making a cup of

Hot cocoa – plain 

Instant noodle soup A) Noodles B) Vegetables C) The Spices

May one use a cup that has some water droplets in it to pour water from an urn inside of it to be a Kli Sheini? 

May one place butter on a hot potato ?

May one dip hot french fries into ketchup?

Someone forgot to add salt to the soup when it was cooked it. 

How can one add salt?

How can one add black pepper into their soup?

May someone place croutons in their soup? Challah in soup?

May one place Cholent on their plate which the liquid of the Cholent will spread into the salad on the plate?

May one reheat a piece of chicken in a tin pan by placing it on top of a pot that’s on the fire which the sauce on top will melt? 

How can one heat up a baby bottle on Shabbos?

May one heat up a solid baked meat roll some of the fat will liquify from the heat? 

May one place challah on top of a crockpot or upside down pan on hotplate challah to become hard like toast? 

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Borer – Monday night shiur, Shevat 9 – Filtering Water (01/26/26)

Filtering water

Very quickly review גמרא דף קלט עמ’ ב “אמר זעירי נותן אדם until the two dots 

What is the answer of the Gemara of בין הגתות?

Major Question:

Why does it matter that people drink the wine with the sediments? Why should that permit one to filter out the sediments if he personally does not want the sediments in his wine? How is this different from a person who has a mixture of two food items and one of them he does not want to eat now – which is forbidden for him to separate as the one he does not want is considered – bad-‘ pesoles -waste? 

How does Rashi answer these questions?

Learn רי”ף

Learn ר”ן

Learn רשב”א who breaks the halacha down to three levels. 

How does the Ran answer these questions?

What’s the difference between Rashi and the Ran/Rashba?

Learn רמב”ם ה’ שבת פרק ח הלכה יד

How does the Rambam rule?

Learn כסף משנה

How is it permitted to filter water on Shabbos?

How do we conclude lhalacha?

Learn טור ושו”ע ס’ שי”ט סע’ י

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום שני, Shevat 8 – Review Questions (01/26/26)

Based on what we learned – 

I would like you to break down the following questions into the core issues that one faces in the following questions and all the variables . Come to a conclusion how one would be permitted to get the desired result.

Please write the answers and email them to me

Question:

May one place a lemon in their hot tea?

May one place honey in their hot tea?

Making a cup of

Hot cocoa – plain 

Hot cocoa mix

Instant noodle soup A) Noodles B) Vegetables C) The Spices 

May one use a cup that has some water droplets in it to pour water from an urn inside of it to be a Kli Sheini? 

May one place butter on a hot potato ?

Dip hot french fries into ketchup?

Someone forgot to put salt the soup when cooked it. 

How can one add salt?

How can one add black pepper into their soup?

May someone place croutons in their soup?

Challah in soup?

May one place Cholent on their plate which the liquid of the Cholent will spread into the salad on the plate?

May one reheat a piece of chicken in a tin pan by placing it on top of a pot that’s on the fire which the sauce on top will melt? 

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום חמישי, Shevat 4 – Cooking After Baking (01/22/26)

Based on what we learned – I would like you to break down the following questions into the core issues that one faces in the following questions and how one would be permitted to get the desired result

Question:

Making a cup of Hot – 

Coffee A) Instant coffee 

See אגרות משה אורח חיים חלק ד ס’ עד בישול אות טז

May one add milk?

Tea (Tea bag)

Tea essence that was made before shabbos A) still warm as left on edge of the blech B) Cold

Hot cocoa – plain 

Hot cocoa mix

Instant noodle soup A) Noodles B) Vegetables C) The Spices 

Placing butter on a hot potato 

Dipping hot french fries into ketchup 

Sprinkling salt into bowl of soup

Sprinkling black pepper into bowl of soup

Placing Cholent on your plate which the liquid of the Cholent will spread into the salad on the plate. 

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Borer – Wednesday night shiur, Shevat 4 – Filtering Water (01/21/26)

Filtering water

Is it permitted to filter water on Shabbos?

Review the first three lines of the משנה דף קלט עמ’ ב

Review גמרא דף קלט עמ’ ב “אמר זעירי נותן אדם until the two dots 

Questions:

What is the answer of the Gemara of בין הגתות

Why does it matter that people drink the wine with the sediments? Why should that permit one to filter out the sediments if he personally does not want the sediments in his wine? How is this different from a person who has a mixture of two food items and one of them he does not want to eat now – whihc is forn=biden for him to separate as the one he does not want is considered – bad-‘ pesoles -waste? 

How does Rashi answer these questions?

Learn רי”ף

Learn ר”ן

How does the Ran answer these questions?

What’s the difference between Rashi and the Ran?

How do we conclude lhalacha?

Learn טור ושו”ע ס’ שי”ט סע’ י

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום רביעי, Shevat 3 – Cooking After Baking (01/21/26)

Based on what we learned – I would like you to break down the following questions into the core issues that one faces in the following questions and how one would be permitted to get the desired result

Question:

Making a cup of Hot – 

Coffee A) Instant coffee B) Instant freeze dried coffee C) Ground coffee 

Tea bag

Tea essence that was made before shabbos A) still warm as left on edge of the blech B) Cold

Hot cocoa – plain 

Hot cocoa mix

Instant noodle soup A) Noodles B) Vegetables C) The Spices 

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום שלישי, Shevat 2 – Cooking After Baking After Cooking (01/20/26)

Cooking after Baking after Cooking 

Is a food that was cooked and then baked permitted to be heated up in liquid on Shabbos?

For example a bagel or donut that was first boiled in water/oil and then baked permitted to be placed into a Kli Rishon of hot soup?

See פרי מגדים אשל אברהם ס’ שי”ח ס”ק יז 

Learn ביאור הלכה ס’ שי”ח סע’ ה “יש

See אגלי טל מלאכת אופה סע’ ט “ומ”מ יראה לי

See מאור השבת חלק ב ס’ ח סע’ יב-יג & הערה כח (attached to this email)

May one place challah/bread next to a heat source which will toast the bread?

Learn רמב”ם ה’ שבת פרק א הלכה א & ו

Learn מגן אברהם ס’ שי”ח ס”ק יז

And משנה ברורה ס’ שי”ח ס”ק מא

Learn קובץ הלכות שבת פרק כה סע’ מא & הערה סא & א – (see below) – for a lengthy discussion in the poskim whether it is prohibited or permitted.  

Question:

Is freeze dried instant coffee considered cooked , baked or cooked and then baked ?

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Borer – Monday night shiur, Shevat 2 – Filtering Water (01/19/26)

Filtering water

Is it permitted to filter water on Shabbos?

Learn “גמרא דף קלט עמ’ ב “אמר זעירי נותן אדם until the two dots 

Questions:

What is the answer of the Gemara of בין הגתות

Why is it permitted?

Learn רש'”י 

Learn רי”ף

Learn ר”ן

What’s the difference between Rashi and the Ran?

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום שלישי, Shevat 2 – Cooking After Baking After Cooking (01/20/26)

Cooking after Baking after Cooking 

Is a food that was cooked and then baked permitted to be heated up in liquid on Shabbos?

For example a bagel or donut that was first boiled in water/oil and then baked permitted to be placed into a Kli Rishon of hot soup?

See פרי מגדים אשל אברהם ס’ שי”ח ס”ק יז 

Learn ביאור הלכה ס’ שי”ח סע’ ה “יש

See אגלי טל מלאכת אופה סע’ ט “ומ”מ יראה לי

See מאור השבת חלק ב ס’ ח סע’ יב-יג & הערה כח (attached to this email)

May one place challah/bread next to a heat source which will toast the bread?

Learn רמב”ם ה’ שבת פרק א הלכה א & ו

Learn מגן אברהם ס’ שי”ח ס”ק יז

And משנה ברורה ס’ שי”ח ס”ק מא

Learn קובץ הלכות שבת פרק כה סע’ מא & הערה סא & א – (see below) – for a lengthy discussion in the poskim whether it is prohibited or permitted.  

Question:

Is freeze dried instant coffee considered cooked , baked or cooked and then baked ?

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Perek Kirah, יום חמישי, Teves 26 – Cooking After Baking (01/15/26)

Cooking after Baking

According to the opinion of the Yeraim is cooking after baking prohibited Doraissa?

https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14268&st=&pgnum=42

https://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14268&st=&pgnum=43

Cooking after Frying 

Is it permitted to place deep fried croutons in soup which is a Kli Sheini?

Learn פרי מגדים משבצות זהב ס’ שי”ח ס”ק ז 

Is there a difference between pan fried or deep fried? 

Learn שמירת שבת כהלכתה פרק א ס’ ס”א והערה קפ”ב

Learn קובץ הלכות שבת פרק כה סע’ לט-מ

Baking after Baking 

May one place challah/bread next to a heat source which will toast the bread?

Learn קובץ הלכות שבת פרק כה סע’ מא & הערה סא & א

Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim: Gemara Shabbos: Borer – Wednesday night shiur, Teves 24 – Filtering (01/14/26)

Filtering wine 

Quickly review משנה דף קלט עמ’ ב “ונותנין מים על גבי 

Why is it permissible to pour water over the wine sediments? 

Why isn’t this considered borer?

Learn Rashi

Based on Rashi – it’s permitted because he is not extracting the trapped wine from the sediments 

Learn Rashi on the Rif

Learn רע”ב על המשנה who says that he is trying to extract the trapped wine from the sediments.

Major Question:

Why isn’t extracting the wine from the sediments considered borer, especially in this instance that he is using a filtering tool?

Learn פרי מגדים משבצות זהב שי”ט ס”ק י (in middle) who gives one explanation 

Learn קובץ הלכות שבת פרק כז סע’ קלב הערה קנח for a new explanation 

See שולחן שלמה ס’ שי”ט ס”ק כב-כד 

Practical Halacha

Based on the above may one pour water over coffee granules that are in a coffee filter (using hot water from a Kli Shlishi)?