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1) It is permitted to heat up an item on Shabbos utilizing the direct heat of the sun. (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim Siman 318:3. See Rashi to Shabbos 39a Dibur Hamaschil D'Shari where he explains that this is not the normal way of cooking and thus not included in the prohibition.)
2)However, it is prohibited to cook utilizing a heat source that was initially heated up via the sun's heat. This is a rabbinic decree lest people get confused and come to cook utilizing "offspring" of actual fire based on the permissibility to use "offspring" of the sun. (ibid.)
A practical example of this would be the permissibility of placing a frozen or cold Challah, Kugel or other item on the window sill within the direct rays of the sun so that it get defrosted and/or even heated.
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Reader's Question:
Can a girl (over bas mitzvah age) touch a boy younger than 11, in a non-chibah manner (i.e.- helping a child button his coat, herding students along in a line for recess, etc.)?
Answer:
According to Harav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita, a female over Bas Mitzvah should not have any physical contact with any boy above the age of 9 (Quoted in Sefer Halichos Bas Yisroel)
CHIZUK CORNER
As a Zechus for the Refuah Shelaima of one of the Gedolei HaDor, the Telzer Rosh Yeshiva , HaRav Chaim Stein Shlita, R' Chaim Yaakov ben Chasya Miriam, B'soch Sha'ar Cholei Yisroel, we will B'Ezras Hashem post here each day a short inspirational thought to help us all improve our lives and grow in our service of our Father in heaven, HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
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קוה אל ד', חזק ויאמץ לבך, וקוה אל ד'
Chizuk For Today:
A Rav who was very involved in Kiruv (outreach) of teenage boys who were struggling with life's challenges, suffered a terrible personal loss.
His own son , Shloimela, suddenly died right after his upsherin, R"L.
The boys who he worked with came to pay a Shiva call, and they told him that they as a group decided that even though they were not considered frum anymore, they would keep one Shabbos in this boy's zechus.
The Rav stood up and hugged and kissed each one and danced with them, even though he was sitting Shiva.
Afterwards someone said to him"Why were you so excited?
What's the big deal? So they will keep this one Shabbos, and then the following Shabbos they will go back to their old way."
He replied"If someone were to offer me one last Shabbos with my little precious Shloimela, I would give all the money in the world to have that one last day to say goodbye to him."
THIS IS HOW HASHEM VIEWS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US!
We come back to Hashem one day at a time.
Maybe we will fall, maybe we won't, but Hashem takes every day that we are overcoming our struggles and embraces it.
Don't say, "One day isn't good enough", rather, say "Ah, at least I have one day of closeness to Hashem, One day of purity."
Submitted by a daily reader; as heard from Rabbi Fischel Schachter Shlita.
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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