[Avodah] May one add matzah meal or pieces of bread to a bowl of hot soup on Shabbos?

[Zev Sero]

On 13/1/21 7:55 am, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> 
> How much difference can there be between the temperature of the water
> in the urn and the temperature of the water in the second cup,  the
> kli shlishi? Not very much.  The temperature of the water in the
> second cup is certainly well over 113 F. So why do they say it does not 
> cook?

Because that's what the halacha says.  E.g. see SA Harav 551:34 who 
explicitly says that the heat of a keli shlishi or revi'i, even if it is 
yad soledes bo, has no power to cook, although according to some it 
still has the power to cause absorption and expulsion.

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