1) It is permitted to add salt to vegetables which are not commonly pickled and vegetables where salt does not further process them; rather it simply enhances their taste.
Thus it is permitted to add salt to slices of tomatoes, peppers and similar vegetables. (See Shmiras Shabbos K'Hilchaso Perek 11 footnote 6 quoting Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal that although tomatoes are indeed pickled, they are only pickled whole and not in slices and thus adding salt to slices does not look like pickling. Furthermore, tomatoes that are pickled are usually pickled in vinegar and not in salt and thus when adding salt to them we are not concerned that it will look like pickling.)
2) A salad that contains a medley of vegetables may be salted as long as the majority of vegetables in the mixture are the varieties that aren't commonly pickled. (See Orchos Shabbos Vol. 1 page 261 footnote 20)
Moreover, if the salad contains oil, vinegar or salad dressing it is surely permissible to add salt [here, even if a majority of the vegetables are of the variety that are commonly pickled] as once the dressing has been added it weakens the salt's ability to further pickle any of the vegetables, as we discussed yesterday. (Mishna Berura Siman 321:14)
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Reader's Question:
I just davened mincha and for most of the brachos, the chazzan didn't leave even a tiny pause between finishing one bracha and starting then next one.
I heard that one needs to say Amen before the chazzan starts the next bracha and if he says it afterward, it is an Amen Yesoma.
First I want to clarify if this is indeed correct. if it is, would this also affect the chazzan's brachas being L'vatala?
Answer:
This is a huge problem indeed.
The halacha is that the Shatz may not proceed with the next bracha until at least the majority of the Tzibur (and in certain cases, where the bracha is an obligation such as shofar, Kidush etc. the entire Tzibur) has answered Amen.
Many Poskim rule that Chazaras Hashatz today has a status like a Bracha that needs to be heard, and thus the entire Tzibur must be done answering Amen.
Answering Amen after the Shatz is already a few words into the next Bracha is an Amen Yesoma and should not be answered, as its better to not answer Amen than to Chas V'Shalom answer an Amen Yesoma that has punishments attached to it.
The Rav/gabbai of each shul should indeed make sure that people davening for the Amud are aware that they must slow down and not start the next Bracha until all (or at least most) of the Tzibur responded Amen to the last Bracha.(See Shulchan Aruch Siman 124:8 and 9 and Mishna Berura S"K 31-38. See also Biur Halacha Dibur Hamaschil Miyad Shekala.)
This applies to Kaddish as well.
Regarding Bracha L'Vatalah, if the first Bracha of Chazaras Hashatz didn't have 9 people answer Amen to it properly, indeed it is a Bracha L'Vatalah. The rest of the Brachos, may also be Brachos L'Vatalos, or at least close to it. (See Shulchan Aruch Siman 124:4 and Shu"t Minchas Shlomo end of Siman 10)
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