1) If one removes an item from a mixture for the purposes of giving it to someone else (e.g. removing an apple from a bowl of fruit for the purposes of giving to guest to take along with him after the meal [within an Eruv of course]), there is a debate amongst the Poskim if this is considered a permissible Borer.
2) According to some Poskim, being that this item is not going to be used immediately, it is prohibited. (See Ohr Sameach on Rambam Hilchos Shabbos Perek 23:16. This is also the ruling of Maran Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita, quoted in Sefer Orchos Shabbos page 148 footnote 52)
Other Poskim, however, rule that as far as the person removing it from the mixture, his need for this item is for the purpose of giving it to the other person and not for the purpose of using it, and thus it is considered for "immediate use" (i.e.to give to the other person immediately), and it's irrelevant when the other person actually uses it. (Ruling of Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal, ibid. footnote 53)
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Reader's Question:
Can someone use a meat thermometer on Shabbos (the kind that pokes into the meat and gives the internal meat temperature) if it is not a digital read-out?
Answer:
No, it is prohibited to measure on Shabbos for purposes other than healing or for a Mitzvah.
Also, there may also be an issue of heating up the liquid in the thermometer when it is inserted into the hot meat.
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Chizuk For Today:
Question: Why isn't all food made ready to eat?
Answer by HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatzal:
Hakadosh Baruch Hu wanted us to work in this world. It's very important we should be busy. If we would live idly like Adam in Gan Eden, we would fall into sin, and that's why when Adam showed that total leisure was dangerous for him, he fell into sin. So Hashem said, from now on B'zeias Apecha Tochal Lechem, with the sweat of your brow you'll eat bread. You have to work for your bread, it's a blessing to work, Gedola Melacha, because you're busy working it keeps you out of trouble.
If everything was ready made, you never have to do any cooking, women would go wild. It's a blessing that they stand in the kitchen, and there's a big opportunity. A woman standing at the gas range is like a Kohain at the Mizbeiach and she's Makriv Korbanos. She's Makriv herself on the gas range for the benefit of her family. Hakadosh Baruch Hu planned this world for work, work is a very important blessing in this world, Gedola Melacha, how great is work. Make no mistake about it, Adam was given this blessing, B'zeias Apecha, with the sweat of your brow. Tova Torah Im Melacha, you need work in this world, Sheyagia Shenaihem Mashkachas Avon, laboring in Torah and laboring in work causes people to forget sin.
And therefore when Hakadosh Baruch Hu made an exception and gave us fruits, He's reminding us of our original state. Our original state was planned to be total leisure, where we'd enjoy the fruits of Gan Eden. So on Chamisha Asor Beshvat we go back to Gan Eden for a short visit and we look at the fruits, and we utilize them for the purpose for which the world was created. Then we go back to our work, Shaishes Yomim Ta'avod, six days you should work, V'asisa Kol Melachtecha. When Shabbos comes, thank Hashem for Shabbos or on Shabbos thank Hashem that He gave you six days to work.
Think about that: Thank Hashem that he gave you six days to carry out all your plans, to labor, to perfect yourself, to create the benefits of character that accrue from work, Gedola Melacha. Shabbos is like giving Maaser. When you give a tenth of your earnings to Hashem, you thank Him for the other nine tenths, and when you keep Shabbos to Hashem you thank Him for the other six days. Shaishes Yomim, six days you should do your work, a blessing of six days, it's a happiness the six days, opportunity of six days, because the work is in itself one of the great benefits that Hashem is giving to mankind.
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