Can you use a grater on yom tov

It is possible that SA would agree with this, based on what is written in about salt. Prev Sifting Flour and Lash Next. Sifting Flour and Lash Borer Specific Laws of Borer This includes cooking, heating food, washing dishes, etc. These activities are allowed only a few minutes after Tzet Hakochavim The appearance of stars in the sky.

If food was cooked from the first Yom Tov to the second Bedeieved , it is permitted. Eruv Tavshilin So what do we do when Shabbat immediately follows the Holiday?

How do we prepare for Shabbat? Such actions include, cooking using an existing flame, putting food on a hot plate, preparing candles, showering for the Sabbath and so on.

It is best is to finish the preparations and cooking for the Sabbath on Friday noon, so the food will be editable on Yom Tov but Bedieved after the fact , these preparations are allowed until shabbat comes in. Although preparing food is permitted by the Torah, our sages permitted only some of the actions when needed for cooking meals for Yom Tov.

So, therefore, make sure to take the good from the waste rather than the other way around. Sephardic Jews may rely upon the opinion of Rabbi Karo in OC who permits the food preparation malachos even if they could have been done before Yom Tov. The author can be reached at [email protected]. I know its a little off topic but I always wondered about fishing as a leisure activity on chol hamoed.

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The Yeshiva World. Yair Hoffman. Share on Facebook. After all, Tosafot write explicitly that techina is not applicable to anything which is already edible. Similarly, the Asheri [the Rosh ] writes that he is astounded by the idea that techina could be applicable to things which are already edible.

One may not contradict their views from the words of the other greats unless we have found that they argue with them explicitly; however, as long as we can differentiate and say that, in this case, these concede to those, we must say so.

However, this logic would imply that one may not mince raw meat in order to feed it to birds, since the meat is not truly edible — it is just that some people will gobble it down in this unusual manner. One must say that Tosafot allow grinding that which is already edible, because those foods do not really require techina ; if one truly wanted to do so, one could eat it whole and chew it with one's teeth. However, without this reason, [one may] not [allow cutting it up]. And if you say: if so, someone who is not capable of chewing even cooked or roasted meat, it should be forbidden [to cut up cooked or roasted meat for such a person], this is not true; we follow the majority of the world, which is capable of chewing [prepared meat].

Therefore, techina is not applicable to [prepared meat], even for someone who cannot chew it; however, raw meat, which is not fit for any person According to the Terumat Ha-deshen , since according to many Rishonim there is no prohibition of tochen for foods which can be eaten as they are , as we have seen above, there is good reason to be lenient in any case with foods such as these as long as they are not giddulei karka.

However, it may be that the Rishonim would not be lenient about foods which cannot be eaten without techina, and therefore one must forbid cutting them up even if they are not giddulei karka. According to this, the Terumat Ha-deshen rules that one may cut cooked or roasted meat into small pieces, since one may eat it without chittukh and "chop it up" with one's teeth , and it is permissible to do so even on behalf of a person who finds it difficult to eat it without chittukh , since we follow the majority of the world.

One the other hand, one may not cut up raw meat for the sake of birds , even though it is not in the category of giddulei karka , since one is incapable of eating it without cutting it up.

The Shulchan Arukh rules in accordance with the Terumat Ha-deshen : "It is permissible to mince cooked or roasted meat with a knife. The Rema ibid. However one many not mince raw meat for birds, since they are not able to eat it without its being cut up Rema ibid. The Mishna Berura 31, 33 mentions that the allowance to grind non- giddulei karka when most people can eat them without techina applies even if one grinds them to eat them at a later point.

However, as we saw above, in any case, one may not grind with a utensil which is designed for techina unless the device cuts into slices or large pieces. Translated by Rabbi Yoseif Bloch. Consequently, one is allowed to cut the vegetables even with a special utensil. However, the Terumat Ha-deshen raises the following doubt in this regard: perhaps even those Rishonim rule leniently only for items which can be eaten when they are whole chopping them up, as it were, with one's teeth , but to items which require grinding or cutting , techina is applicable, even if they do not require cooking.

The logic is that when it is impossible to eat without techina , the techina changes the status of the item and turns it into food, and therefore it is more serious. On the other hand, the Taz understands ibid. Accordingly, the Taz concludes that one should reject the Rema's ruling and allow cutting raw meat so that birds may eat it, since the conclusion of the Gemara ibid.

Tochen: Techina with a Utensil. Iyun in Talmud. Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon. Thus, the Rivash gives us two reasons to prohibit using a cheese grater: 1. Midei explains that one is prohibited from using a utensil which is designed specifically for techina ; however, cutting with a knife for immediate consumption is permissible as emerges from the words of the Rivash himself : Did they not allow borer only by hand and not with a utensil, because [with a utensil] it is considered like borer in any case?

On the other hand, the Arukh Ha-shulchan allows using such a knife: I have seen those who question this and forbid cutting onions with a cleaver.