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1) A cold cooked food item, such as meat or chicken, which is sitting in a bed of gravy which has congealed due to being in the refrigerator, is a subject of debate amongst the Poskim if it may be reheated on Shabbos.
Although the gravy is not liquid at the onset of being reheated, it will indeed return to its liquid form as it gets heated and thus result in cold liquid being heated.
Some Poskim rule that since at the time it was placed on the heat source it was not a liquid, we apply "Ain Bishul Achar Bishul" and it is permitted. (See Mogen Avraham Siman 318: 40 and Mishna Berura Siman 318:100. However, it must be pointed out, that if there is a lot of gravy in the pot, it may possibly be prohibited even according to these Poskim due to the prohibition of Molid, unless in cases of extreme necessity, where we can be lenient. See Mishna Berura 318:105-107)
Other Poskim maintain that it is prohibited as they rule that although the gravy at the onset of the cooking was congealed, still as soon as it becomes liquefied it is once again considered a cold liquid and once again subject to the prohibition of Bishul similar to any other cold liquid. (See Levush Siman 318:15 and Taz S"K 20)
2) Salt or sugar, which are cooked, should not be placed into pot of boiling liquid (Kli Rishon) nor should boiling liquid from a pot (Kli Rishon) be poured directly onto salt or sugar even if they were previously cooked.
The reason for this is that as soon as the hot water makes contact with the salt or sugar it liquefies it, and thus it will be reheating a cold liquid and that is prohibited. In a Kli Sheni it is permitted.(Mishna Berura Siman 318:71 writes that it is best to be stringent with this. Even though with congealed gravy he rules leniently, he holds that sugar or salt turns to liquid immediately upon making contact with the hot water and thus is considered a liquid while the gravy takes longer to liquefy and thus is less of a reason to consider it liquid)
The Thirty Nine Avos Melachos of Shabbos:
1. Zo'reah - Planting
2. Choresh - Plowing
3. Kotzer - Reaping
4. M'Amer - Gathering
5. Dash - Threshing
6. Zoreh - Winnowing
7. Borer - Sorting
8. Tochen - Grinding
9. Miraked - Sifting
10. Lash - Kneading
11. Ofeh / Bishul -Baking/Cooking
12. Gozez - Shearing
13. Melaben - Bleaching
14. Menapetz - Combing tangled wool
15. Tzo'veah - Dyeing
16. Toveh - Spinning
17. Mesach - Setting threads onto loom
18. Oseh Beis Batai Nirin - Preparing to weave
19. Oreg - Weaving
20. Potzeiah - Taking apart threads.
21. Kosher - Tying a knot
22. Matir - Untying a knot
23. Tofer - Sewing
24. Ko'reah - Tearing
25. Tzad - Trapping
26. Shochet - Slaughtering
27. Mafshit - Skinning
28. M'abed - Tanning
29. Mesarteit - Scratching out lines on parchment
30. Memachek - Smoothing
31. Mechatech - Cutting to exact shape
32. Kosev - Writing
33. Mochek - Erasing
34. Boneh - Building
35. Soser - Demolishing
36. Mechabeh - Extinguishing
37. Ma'avir - Kindling a fire.
38. Makeh B'Patish - Completing an object
39. Hotza'ah - Carrying between domains or in public domain
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Question: Why should a person thank Hashem for his eyes, Baruch Ata Hashem Pokeach Ivrim, if animals can also see?
Answer by HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatzal
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Plenty of people cannot see. Walk in the streets and see this man tapping his way with a cane, and ask him that question, what will he answer?
We have to thank Hashem for the animal's eyes, too. But whatever there is in the world, is given for the purpose of making us aware of Hashem. And not only thank Hashem for the fact that we have eyes to use, but the eye itself is a testimony.
You know; that Rasha himself, Darwin, Yemach Shemo, himself said, that when I come to the subject of the eye, I feel somewhat faint to think that such a contrivance could happen by itself. He felt somewhat faint, he should faint, he's in Gihenom fainting right now.
The eyes are a wonderful thing, Nisay Nissim what an eye is, you have to talk about the eye, at length - to appreciate it. Wonder of wonders. It's a camera taking pictures every second, color pictures, and it functions perfectly not only for close nearby pictures, but it can focus on far away pictures in the same minute. When I look at you, now the camera, I have to adjust it for far away, but immediately the eye adjusts for far away pictures, then I turn back to you, close pictures. Wonderful.
You're sitting in a car speeding down the road, you look at the speedometer right here, and then you look at the mountains miles ahead; you couldn't do that with a camera.
The wonders of the eye would occupy volumes and volumes to explain.
And the eye itself testifies to the endless wisdom of its great designer. And therefore when we thank Hashem, Pokeach Ivrim, not only for the happiness of the eye, not only for the joy of sight, we appreciate a life of color and motion.
Great pity, a great sadness to lose sight. Opportunity that sight gives us to gain understanding, to see people we love, to be able to guard ourselves against danger, when you have to cross the street, pitfalls. Eyes are not only useful for us in every sense but the eyes bring us the greatest benefit of all, the awareness of the great Designer who brought such a most complicated contrivance into existence.
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