Dirshu Mishnah Berurah

We explore the permissibility of placing cooked items on top of a furnace on Shabbat.

We explore where permission is given to heat food on top of an existing pot of food as this is not the normal way of cooking. It is therefore designated as merely heating up food on Shabbat.

We examine the adding of water to drying out food on Shabbat.

We look at the laws regarding returning of food to the stove top oven prior to the commencement of Shabbat.

We examine the conditions necessary to allow the returning of food to the stove top on Shabbat.

We complete this section about leaving food on the stove before Shabbat by introducing the opinion of the Rama who is more lenient in terms of the level of food cooking required prior to the onset of Shabbat. Food needs to be either 1/2 or 1/3 cooked and not fully cooked.

We examine different types of oven with varying intensities of heat and how that affects the Halacha.

We delve further into laws regarding leaving food on the kirah stove before Shabbat.

We start our discussion of cooking on Shabbat with an examination of two central concepts. Leaving the pot on the stove and returning the pot to the stove.

There is a mitzvah to check ones pockets on a Friday afternoon so that you should not inadvertently carry items in a public domain on Shabbat.

We discuss permitted work started before Shabbat that is prohibited if started on Shabbat

We discuss the issues surrounding picking up an item from a non-Jewish store on Shabbat

We examine under what conditions it is permitted to give clothes to a non-Jew to launder on rev Shabbat.

We examine when it is permissible to give work to a non-Jew to carry out when it might be done by him on Shabbat.

We examine work that can be done on erev Shabbat that may extend into Shabbat,

We examine when it is permissable to work on erev Shabbat

We learn that the Torah greats would go to considerable lengths to ensure that they themselves did things to prepare for Shabbat. This was not considered beneath their dignity but rather added to their dignity as they brough honour to Shabbat

Ordinarily we do not carry out any activity before we have prayed in the morning. Preparation for Shabbat is an exception as it is considered in the "interests of Heaven".

We discuss fasting for personal, public fasts and those for a departed father or mother, and those fasts after nightmares, on erev Shabbat.

We discuss the time until which one is allowed to fast on a Friday whether for an individual or a community.

There is a mitzvah to enter into Shabbat in a state of anticipation and desire for the Shabbat meal which prevents us from having full blown meals on erev Shabbat.

We conclude discussions of travelling in the days before Shabbat and turn to an analysis of travelling on Friday before Shabbat - what distance can one travel on a Friday before Shabbat starts?

We examine under what conditions it is permitted to set out on a journey with others on erev Shabbat.

We learn under what conditions it is permitted to board a boat just before Shabbat,

We examine under what conditions it is permitted to set off on a boat before Shabbat