Non-Jew Who Restored Electricity During Baking
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Question
After my wife put the challahs in the oven, the electricity went out in the entire building, and a neighbor, a non-Jew from the former USSR, restored the electricity, and the challahs baked. Is there an issue of pat palter?
Answer
Shalom Rav,
The issue here is 'pat akum' and not 'pat palter'. 'Palter' refers to a public baker, and he has more lenient laws in certain matters.
There is no prohibition as long as the oven remained hot from the initial lighting by the Jew at the start of the baking.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 112:10