Cooking In The Heat Of The Sun On Shabbat

Cooking In The Heat Of The Sun On Shabbat Day: Wednesday Date: June 11, 2014 Parshat: Sh'lach Yalkut Yosef: 318 On Shabbat one may cook using heat directly from the sun. Examples are heating up water, or cooking an egg by placing it in the sun. The Hachamim forbade cooking using byproducts of the sun's heat in order so that people will not be led to cook in byproducts of heat from fire, which is forbidden from the Torah. One such example is cooking an egg in water that was heated up by the sun. To recap, one may boil water using the sun's heat on Shabbat and one may cook an egg using the sun's heat in Shabbat. However one may not cook the egg in the water that was heated up by the sun. Using a magnifying glass to concentrate the sun's rays onto food in order to cook it is considered to be cooking with the direct heat of the sun and is permitted on Shabbat. The DSH is brought to you in memory of Rabbi Mordechai ben Daniel. Please visit us online at sephardichalacha.org