Electricity in Halacha
Peace and blessings,
The opinion of the Rabbi Abba Shaul is to permit cooking with an electric stove. And he claimed that the electric current is renewed at every moment and there is no relationship between man and electricity beyond the first moment. For the same reason, he did not permit lighting Shabbat candles with electricity because lighting does not relate to me (a flashlight operated with batteries is permitted, according to him).
1. Is this realistically true?
2. Assuming the answer to the first question is yes. Does the Rabbi agree with the halachic innovation regarding cooking Ak'am?
לגלות עוד מהאתר הרב מיכאל אברהם
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- It's hard to define this well. One can think of aspects in which electricity is more continuous than in ordinary fire (the current is constantly due to the initial voltage drop).
- But I do not agree with its renewal regardless of that. The microscopy of the process has nothing to do with halacha. Just as I do not generally like grama devices (I think I wrote about this here once, based on Rabbi Yitzhak Brand's argument).
- Although there are jurists who have distinguished between cooking and smoking and salting, which were not forbidden among the Gentiles, that is, they have made formal distinctions, it is difficult to accept a distinction between fire and electricity in terms of the reason for the prohibition. Thus, Bishvat Halevi (8:2) writes regarding cooking in a microwave oven, which is completely different from cooking with fire. So cooking with electricity is exactly the same as cooking with ordinary fire today. In his opinion, would it also be permissible to cook with electricity on Shabbat from the principle of the law (from the Torah)? Would that be cooking according to the law? Very unlikely. In my opinion, their ruling regarding Shabbat candles is equally unlikely (there is even the reasoning for lighting a regular candle from the Ba'u'i, which says that burning it because of its arrows is considered lighting it at any moment during Shabbat itself. Wouldn't electric light be considered its arrows in this regard?!).
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