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face=Arial>From: "Prof. Levine" <llevine@stevens.edu><BR><BR>>>
Harris also cannot cook food on the Sabbath. He is allowed only to<BR>reheat
previously cooked food without starting or stopping an<BR>electrical circuit. An
oven with a Sabbath mode bypasses the<BR>automatic 12-hour shut-off circuitry
built into modern ovens for<BR>safety. He also assumed the Sabbath-compliant
oven he bought had a<BR>time-bake feature that could be set before the weekend
Sabbath to<BR>turn on automatically to reheat the pre-cooked food.<BR><BR>"That
assumption," he says, "ultimately proved wrong."<BR><BR>As Harris understood it,
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<DIV>It seems to me that Harris is wrong about the halacha. You can't turn
an oven on on Shabbos (even by setting a timer to do it) in order to heat up
food. You can put cold food on a blech but IIANM you can't put cold food
in a hot oven on Shabbos. </DIV>
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<DIV>He thought the oven could be set to turn itself on on Shabbos, because he
was misinformed about what he could do on Shabbos. Neither GE nor the
Star-K misled him.</DIV>
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<DIV>The main advantage of a Sabbath mode is that it will stay on for two
or three days over a long yom tov. It lets you override the automatic
12-hour cutoff that all the new-fangled ovens have. In the good old days
/all/ ovens were "Sabbath mode" in this respect: they stayed on until you
turned them off.</DIV>
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