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Hotplate Turns Off and On During Shabbos

Question

Shalom Rabbi, is it permitted to set the 'Shabbos time switch' for the hot plate so that it turns off at night and back on in the morning, when the cholent was placed on the hot plate before Shabbos? 

Thank you very much.

Answer

Shalom u'vracha 

It is permissible to do so. 

Answered 21 August 2025 How answers are reviewed
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Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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