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1) According to some Poskim (including HaRav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal and YBLC"T Maran HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Shlita) using a Crockpot on Shabbos [without modifications] presents a problem of Hatmana.
Even though the pot with the food is only insulated from below and from the sides, yet is totally open from on top, these Poskim maintain, that since this is the normal way to cook with this appliance, and it is also Mosif Hevel, increasing the heat, it will not be subject to the leniency of "Hatmana B'Miktzas, and will still be prohibited.
Other Poskim (including Rav Shmuel Wosner Shlita) maintain that although there is room for stringency, it cannot be prohibited as the opening on top deems it Hatmana B'Miktzas which is permitted.
2) There are various ways around this problem, including placing some stones or other items between the base of the Crockpot and the pot containing the food, which will lessen the insulation.
Also, on the type of Crockpots where the heating element is only on the bottom and not throughout the walls of the base, even Rav Shlomo Zalmen Auerbach Zatzal was lenient.
The various other details of this Halacha are complex and not easily detailed in this forum. It would be best for each individual to show their specific Crockpot to their Rav for a Psak regarding Hatmana (as well as SheHiya and Chazara which can also be problematic sometimes in certain Crockpots)
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Chizuk For Today:
What is the best way for a woman to feel good while dealing with the pressures of child rearing and house work?
Answer by HaRav Avigdor Miller Zatzal:
Now that's an important question because a great deal of time and effort are invested in that, and it pays to utilize it. First and foremost, to do whatever you do and say, "I am doing it for the service of Hashem". That sounds queer, people never thought of that. As you pick up a squalling baby, say I am doing it because Hashem says V'ohavtah L'raiacho Kamocha. I love my fellow man, it's my fellow man, the baby. It's a Mitzvas Asai; your fellow man is sad, he's distressed, he's shrieking, and you try to calm him, V'ohavtah L'raiacho Kamocha, think about that.
When you're handing food to the table, your family is sitting at the table, they say, Ma, give us some bread, and you think Nosain Lechem L'chol Bosor Ki L'olam Chasdo, I am a Shaliach of Hashem, they want bread: Here's bread. When you're baking: Nosain Lechem L'chol Bosor. When you're doing anything in the kitchen preparing food, you're doing the Midah of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. And what's His Midah, what's Hakadosh Baruch Hu doing? Yoshaiv V'zun, He's sitting and feeding the world, Meikarnai R'eimim V'aad Beitzei Kinim, from the biggest animal to the smallest insects, Hashem is feeding the world. And it's a model for mothers who stand and labor in the kitchen; they're feeding their little world. That's how a person can think.
Whatever you do in the house, you're washing diapers, it's L'shem Shamayim, you're serving Hakadosh Baruch Hu. And therefore, a women if she has the right preparation, with a little thought, she can transform all these menial tasks that a servant girl can also do, and she transforms into Avodas Hashem, and let me tell you, it's not less then the Kohain in the Bais Hamikdash.
Anybody who serves Hakadosh Baruch Hu with a Laiv Shaleim, La'asos Retzono Ulovdo B'laivov Shaleim, you serve him with a whole heart, L'maan Lo Niga Larik, the labor shouldn't be in vain, Lo Nailaid Labeholo, it's a pity to waste our lives in taking care of children, in cleaning the house, when we could have done it as people who are working in the Bais Hamikdash, and you're Meshamesh like Leviem who are sweeping up in the Azoro and you're serving Hakadosh Baruch Hu, and everything is transformed into gold, whereas otherwise it remains nothing but tin and waste and a lost life.
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