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1)We learned that after the onset of Shabbos, nothing may be done to a food that is not totally cooked which will facilitate its cooking faster.
This includes even a food which is mostly cooked yet contains only one ingredient which is not fully cooked.
A common example of this is a Cholent or other food that contains within it chicken bones [or certain meat bones], which many people enjoy eating and/or sucking out the marrow.
Although the majority of the Cholent is already cooked, it takes a much longer time for the bones to become fully cooked to the point that they and/or their marrow are sufficiently soft for consumption.
According to some Poskim (including Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal in Shu"t Minchas Shlomo Vol. 1 Siman 6) as long as the bones are not fully cooked the entire Cholent is considered "not fully cooked" and it is subject to the prohibitions of Bishul.
This Psak is followed by people in Eretz Yisroel where it is considered more common to eat bones.
2)Other Poskim, however, are more lenient and don't consider bones edible, even though there are people who eat them, and thus would consider the Cholent "fully cooked" as long as all the other ingredients are cooked, even though the bones are not yet sufficiently soft. (See Igros Moshe Orach Chaim Vol. 4 Siman 76 and 77 where he is lenient for Americans but says that those in Eretz Yisroel or anywhere else where the majority of people consider bones a food need to be stringent and follow Rav Shlomo Zalmen's Psak. Rav Nisim Karelitz Shlita also rules similarly, that for individuals that eat the bones it is considered a food and for individuals who don't eat bones it is not considered a food; he doesn't differentiate based on the majority in the country rather based on each individual.)
For Halacha L'ma'aseh, of course, each individual should follow the Psak of their own Rav.
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Reader's Question:
Not that I consider myself worthy but the latest current events have got me thinking......when one is chosen to die Al Kidush Hashem and has time to prepare themselves what should they do, say etc?
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More important than preparing to die Al Kiddush Hashem, is "living" Al Kiddush Hashem.
We are all here on this earth to be Mekadesh Shem Shamayim each and every day through our actions.
You are a Jew. A child of Hashem. People look at you and observe your every move. make sure your every move reflects the will of Hashem.
Dress appropriately.
Talk appropriately.
Daven appropriately.
Act appropriately. etc.
One who lives Al Kiddush Hashem, will always be ready to die Al Kiddush Hashem no matter when/if that time comes in their life.
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The Great Miracle of the Volcano Shutdown
A universal crisis, millions of people stranded, billions of dollars lost, and one volcanic eruption in Iceland causes chaos across the European continent. Within all this tumult, one Jew merits a smile of loveliness from the Creator of the World, as if whispering to him - my son, the whole world was not created except for you כל העולם לא נברא אלא בשבילי.
The story begins with a young Yeshiva student, an 18 year old Yerushalmi, that came down with a fulminate hepatic failure and was mortally ill.
With little hope of receiving a liver transplant in Israel, Rav Firer sought to send the boy on an emergency flight to Brussels, the world center of liver transplants. The only problem however, is that Brussels under no circumstances transplants non-EU patients in order to save the scanty supply of livers for Europeans. Nevertheless, it was decided to send him to Brussels despite the full knowledge of negligible chance of receiving a liver.
The young Yeshiva student had no choice but to include his name to the long waiting list for a liver transplant. In the meantime, he tried to maintain his learning despite the illness, consciously aware that it will takes weeks, months, and even years till he will be able to be given a new liver. Many patients were on the waiting list, and his name was somewhere on the bottom... And when his turn does finally arrive, it must completely match his blood type and other medical criteria. If it's not a perfect match, he will need to continue waiting ... for a miracle.
However, רבות מחשבות בלב איש ועצת ה' היא תקום Many thoughts in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of HaShem shall stand.HaShem had a different plan for this young Yeshiva student and HaShem's loyal servants produced avalanches of hot ash, rock and gas on Europe, causing Europe to completely shut down its skies into a no-fly zone. No one can leave and no one can enter; a self-imposed siege in the euro zone skies. It is during this time that a young religious Yerushalmi man in the capital of Belgium is sitting in the yeshiva learning Torah.
During the course of the shut down airspace above Europe, a person dies in the hospital in the capital of Belgium, a person whom agreed to donate his liver to anyone that might need it. Astonishingly, a liver that is perfectly parametric for our young Yeshiva student.
Health authority of Belgium began searching the liver transplant waiting list but 'unfortunately', not even one patient was able to fly into Belgium for the very needed healthy liver transplant due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland.
As they advanced further on the waiting list, they reached the young Yeshiva student. However it was not offered to the boy due to his lack of citizenship. As the clock closed in on the deadline for time in which the the liver's lifespan for transplanting, the precious healthy liver cannot be wasted and must be swiftly replaced with a diseased liver, no one else was able to arrive in Belgium for the transplant except this young Yerushalmi.
With the clear Divine Intervention, this budding talmid chacham received the liver and is now recovering from surgery.
The enormity of this miracle was even greater after the successful liver transplant. The doctors said that the young yeshiva student's liver was very deteriorated and diseased and it was a matter of days his liver would stop functioning completely. The doctors unanimously believe that if this young man had to continue waiting for the liver transplant, he would have been long dead.
Submitted by daily reader M.C.
Our holy sages, the Chazal tell us
תנא דבי אליהו כל השונה הלכות בכל יום מובטח לו שהוא בן עולם הבא, שנאמר הליכות עולם לו, אל תקרי הליכות אלא הלכות
- one who studies [at least two] Halachos daily is assured a portion in Olam Haba - the world to come. (Talmud Niddah 73a)
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