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Halachic ruling: It is permissible to set a Shabbat clock for heating a water heater - in favor of a shower on Saturday | Israel Today

2021-12-23T07:38:02.004Z


Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of the Tzomet Institute, states that it is permissible to set the Shabbat clock so that it heats the water in the boiler.


Every winter it happens.

The particularly short and cold Saturdays require a shower on Saturday. But the big problem is the water heater, which stays completely frozen for hours, which keeps away the possibility for the religious to thaw in some hot water.

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The head of the Tzomet Halacha and Technology Institute, Rabbi Menachem Perl, issued a new halakhic ruling today (Thursday) that is especially relevant for winter Saturdays, when in many cases hot water is needed immediately after Shabbat - for example for baths for small children.

To this end, Rabbi Pearl rules that the solar water heater's Shabbat clock can be set to start heating the water on Shabbat, while making sure not to use the hot water while the boiler is running on Shabbat.

"There is no impediment to arranging the boiler with a Shabbat clock so that the water will be turned on and heated on Shabbat for the benefit of Shabbat evenings," states Rabbi Pearl.

"Be careful that while the boiler is on or when the water in it is still very hot, do not open the hot water tap at all, nor tilt the tap in the hot direction, as this way cold water will enter that will boil on Saturday."

Rabbi Menachem Perl, Photo: Photo: Tzomet Institute

Rabbi Pearl points out that it was possible to seemingly think of reasons for the ban, but in practice there is no reason for this:

In addition, although sages forbade leaving a cauldron on a stove on Saturday evening, if it did not ripen at all, for fear of 'lest it burn in the coals', the fear of burning coals is not similar to the reality of an electric heating element in a boiler, He explains.

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Source: israelhayom

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