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1) The exception to the rule of removing food from a pot while it is still on the fire is water, as water doesn't improve or boil better or faster due to mixing and thus may be removed with a ladle or a cup even while still on the fire.
Some Poskim (including Rav Moshe Feinstein Zatzal in Igros Moshe Orach Chaim Vol. 4 Siman 74:Bishul;14) are lenient as well with a pot of clear soup (which does not include any solids such as meat, vegetables or the like)
However, other Poskim are stringent even with soup and do not exclude any foods, besides plain water, from the prohibition of mixing. (Ruling of Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal quoted in Me'Or HaShabbos Vol. 2 letter 32:1)
2) If one needs to add [cooked] water to a pot of food that is cooking (e.g. a Cholent that is drying out and unless [hot] water [from the urn] is added it will become totally burnt) the water should be poured into the pot slowly and calmly, as if it is done fast and with a gush it will ultimately cause the food in the pot to become mixed via the stream of new water. (See Shmiras Shabbos K'Hilchasa Perek 1 footnote 42 quoting Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal. Maran Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita maintains that the best way to add this water is to remove the pot from the fire and take it to the urn to add the water and then to return the pot to the fire. See Orchos Shabbos Perek 1 footnote 196)
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37. Ma'avir - Kindling a fire. 38. Makeh B'Patish - Completing an object
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Chizuk For Today:
Bad things happen.
They happen to good people.
Contrary to common perception, bad things also happen to bad people. The difference is not so much in what happens, but in what happens to the person.
When bad things happen to bad people, they are confirmed in their badness. "We knew it all along," they say. "The world is a bad place. The only way to get anywhere in life is by being badder than all the other baddies."
When something bad happens to a good person, it makes him or her a better person.
Trust in G-d is a great virtue. The Talmud and other sources of Jewish lore are full of shining examples of men and women whose faith in G-d and their trust in His salvation never wavered, even in the most trying of circumstances.
But, said the founder of Chassidism, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, there are times when it is forbidden to trust in G-d.
Trust in G-d, said the Baal Shem Tov, is a great virtue when applied to one's own life. But to resort to trust in G-d in matters concerning others' lives is a grave sin. If you hear of a fellow in need and you say "G-d will provide," if your reaction to your neighbor's difficulties is "G-d will help," you're not being pious. You are simply shirking your responsibility toward your fellow man.
The same double standard applies to taking a "philosophical view" on pain and suffering. To justify another person's suffering, to see something positive and gainful in another's pain, is callous, cruel and plain wrong. Unless you are a prophet (in which case G-d might appear to you and say, "Go to so-and-so and tell him that such-and-such happened, or will happen, because he did this-and-that"), you have no business explaining other people's lives. Or defending G-d's way of running His world (He doesn't need your help).
But that's exactly what a good person does regarding his or her own troubles. When something bad happens to him, he says: "Where did I go wrong?" She says: "Someone is trying to tell me something. What might that be? What can I learn from this?" He says: "Now I can appreciate the value of health and prosperity. Now I understand what so-and-so was going through."
A good person who lived 850 years ago put it thus: "To say, 'This is just how the world runs, and this trouble happened to happen,' is an act of cruelty, for it causes a person to persist in his negative ways... [rather,] it should serve to rouse the heart and open pathways of return to G-d" (Rambam).
Submitted by Talia; written by Yanki Tauber at www.Chabad.org
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