Prohibition Due to Premature Activation of Shabbat Timer
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Question
There was a pot of cholent on the hotplate from Friday (the dish was fully cooked), and on Friday night, it was suddenly discovered that the Shabbat timer turned off the hotplate at one in the morning and was supposed to turn on at eight in the morning. It was planned to leave the pot on the hotplate until the morning so it would turn on and be hot by the time of the meal. During the night, a Shabbat desecrator came and set the Shabbat timer to six in the morning, so the hotplate operated two hours earlier - is the dish prohibited (even without this adjustment, the dish would have been hot by the time of the meal)?
Answer
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If the pot cooled down by the morning and was heated by the hotplate that was prematurely activated in violation - the dish is prohibited.